The 33rd Annual Academy Awards banner on Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (1855 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90401, United States) in Santa Monica, California. A car arrives at the auditorium. Hollywood stars arrive. People sitting in the auditorium. Eva Morris announces name of Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Peter Ustinov comes to the stage and takes the award. Hugh Griffith announces the winner of Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Shirley Jones accepts the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Greer Garson announces the award for Best Actor. Burt Lancaster receives the award for his leading role in Elmer Gantry. Yul Brynner announces Elizabeth Taylor as the winner of Best Actress for her role as Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8. Elizabeth Taylor come on stage to receive the award amidst long applause. People in auditorium clap and cheer. Audrey Hepburn announces the winner for Best Picture. Billy Wilder, the producer of the film The Apartment, accepts the Oscar.
French tricolor and a pennant fly above building in Morocco. Moroccans in white traditional dress walk through gardens and a gallery. French General arrives at foot of long walkway, exits a car and ascends walkway flanked by an honor guard of Moroccan troops. He and his aide continue through an outdoor gallery and courtyard before entering building. The General sits at a desk and discusses matters with civil servants who stand near him.
Drawings and diagrams of proposed rockets by various scientists in America and Germany, including Goddard, Valier, Sander, Eisfeld,Reinhold, and Richard Tiling. Models of rocket. Two pictures to show contrasting features of rocket models. Various parts of rockets aligned against a scale. An experimental unit. Pictures of rocket in motion. A man stands near a rocket. Labeled drawings of rocket. A man with a long hose pipe. Rocket models of Sander, Eisfield and Valier. A graphical presentation.
A man holds two rockets. The one shown on the left with the white nose is a double rocket. (These were demonstrated for the Navy at Meppen.) Flag flying over a cabin (named "Arenshorst," by Reinhard Tiling) as rocket firing trials get underway on the island of Wangerooge in the North Sea,during December 1930. Reinhard Tiling emergea from the cabin, carrying a long slender rocket . His assistant Angela Buddenboehmer, and another man (possibly Richard Tiling) follow him across the sand dunes. Two photographers are present and several other men. Tiling inserts the rocket into a launch frame already set up. The team elevates the launcher and Tiling makes some adjustment. At a signal from Tiling, Angela Buddenboehmer pushes a plunger on the ignition control box and the rocket fires and rises. Reinhard Tiling, Buddenboehmer, and Richard Tiling watch it in the sky. Several more launches are shown. Pictures of rocket projectile missiles being launched at Dummersee on April 15, 1931, and of larger missiles at later times.
Robert H. Goddard with the first flight of a liquid fuel rocket on March 16, 1926, in Auburn, Massachussets. He stands next to the rocket perched high on a launching frame. Goddard uses a long pole and can of benzene to fuel the rocket. Photogaph of his camera and barograph used on July 17, 1929. An 18 meter tower being prepared. A 6 meter high test stand. The barrel could be filled with water and serve as ballast. Picture of a Performance recording device. A man in a protective bunker 15 meters from the launch point for tests in New Mexico. A man using a telescope to observe from a shed 900 meters from the launch point. Another with a telescope and recording device on a tripod. Pictures from the first gyro-controlled rocket flight on April 19, 1932
First test of a precursor to the Mirak rocket in Germany. Diagram of the so-called Achenstaber rocket.. Rocket pioneer, Klaus Riedel, and an associate, hold the long slender rocket. A barn with sandbagged window is seen behind them. The men lower the rocket through guidance brackets in a wooden pole. The rocket fuse is ignited and the rocket rises fairly high into the sky but tilts over and dives, crashing into the ground. Riedel and associates stand near a truck carrying metal framework designed to guide a rocket.
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