German V-2 rocket being launched from White Sands, New Mexico. Rocket takes off from launching stand. Exhaust from rear of rocket before it takes off. Trail of rocket in sky. Technician woks on radar screen.
U.S. Navy launch German V-2 rocket from an aircraft carrier USS Midway at White Sands in New Mexico. German V-2 rocket launches from U.S. Navy ship Midway. Technician aboard USS Midway connects liquid oxygen lines. Firefighters crew stand by with hand extinguishers. Hydrogen peroxide containers kept in place in the background. Rocket takes off from USS Midway deck. Rocket in flight pass superstructure of a ship.
City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the United States. Aerial view of Santa Fe city. City street scenes showing pedestrians, automobile and horse drawn vehicle traffic moving along San Francisco street located just off of the historic Santa Fe Plaza, . At end of the street is the St. Francis Cathedral Basilica. Old church at end of clip is San Miguel Mission recognized as the oldest church in the United States built in the early 1600's.
Drug checking at a border check post at the Mexico-United States border. A man and a woman at a border check post counter. An official questions them about illegal drugs. Other officials interact with a man. Vehicles parked in the background. A man gets out of a car. The officials at the counter. An official searches a car trunk for drugs. An aircraft taxis at an airstrip. Other aircraft parked at the airfield in the background.
Daisy track run No. 568, using live animal chimpanzee No. 35. Men wheel a cart holding a chimpanzee, strapped down during test. The chimpanzee is lifted by a team of men and strapped, laying on its side, to a sled on the high speed air-powered daisy track at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. Close up shots of the men fastening the chimpanzee into place. A man uses a stethoscope on the ape. A slate is held up for the camera above the monkey. Scene changes and a man pulls a cord to launch the sled. The sled carrying the chimpanzee is launched forward and abruptly halts at the end of the track. The team of men approach the chimpanzee and inspect it. Close ups of chimpanzee strapped to sled, unmoving. The chimpanzee is untied by the men and lifted back onto the cart, where it is strapped down again.
U.S. aviators of the 1st Aero Squadron pose in front of a Curtiss JN-3 airplane their base in Columbus, New Mexico, in 1916. The rest of their aircraft are lined up, parked, side by side. Scene shifts abruptly to views of camp below, from an airplane flying above it. Pilot is seen in open cockpit.