1970s college fashions at the University of Alabama. A young woman, holding a colorful umbrella, calls for her friend, saying "hey c'mon Sherry, hurry up!" Sherry catches up with the young woman to go to class together at Morton Hall in the University of Alabama in Huntsville (301 Sparkman Dr NW #116A, Huntsville, AL 35899). The women are wearing 1970s bell bottom jeans. Women read books together on Morton Hall entrance, one of them holding a macrame handbag and the other wearing white painters overalls. Two women, one wearing a backless dress, sit on stairway and talk together inside Morton Hall.
Proving ground for military weapons at Huntsville Arsenal in Huntsville Alabama. Sudden explosion seen in a building on a hillside and on surrounding ground. Smoke clouds rising from the ground. Flamethrowers directed at the building from two different directions and the building is engulfed in flames. Repeated scenes of explosion followed by fire and smoke. (World War II period).
Scene in Mobile Alabama during confrontation between African American citizens and members of the KKK, or Ku Klux Klan, not wearing hoods, who were marching in the town of Mobile, Alabama to protest state prison work release programs. Police officers are seen at a street curb in discussion with a group of African American citizen protestors. One African American protestor, off-duty police officer Donald Pinkney, is seen talking to police. Camera turns away from the scene and then swings back apparently capturing the end of an altercation between Pinkney and uniformed police. (Montgomery Advertiser newspaper of 27 September, 1977 reported that the arresting police officers said Pinkney had grabbed a police officer's baton. The newspaper also reported that Pinkney had been struck by a police baton, receiving a three inch head wound that required 12 stitches.) Pinkney is seen being led away from the scene by two uniformed police officers.
"Headquarters Army Ballistic Missile Agency" written on a building in Huntsville, Alabama. General John B Medaris, Chief of Army Ballistic Agency sits in a chair. Wernher Von Braun sits in a chair. A Jupiter Missile shell is towed.
A Jupiter missile erected on a stand in Huntsville, Alabama. Static firing of Jupiter Missile at night. Flames appear at the base of the missile.
A Jupiter rocket covered with tarpaulin towed on a roadway on a flat truck in Huntsville, Alabama.Jupiter missile erected on a stand. 'Liquid Oxygen' written on a container. Men wearing helmets turn a wheel to fuel a missile with liquid oxygen. A Jupiter missile is test fired. It rises up. Shows trail of fire at the tail end of the missile during the flight.
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