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.
Film opens showing a picturesque stone church in Arizona. Camera pans up the church, to cross on the top. Man holds slate reading, “New Mexico, May 30th.” Then Pueblo buildings are shown (possibly in Pueblo of Isleta). Next, two women are seen walking away from the Palace of the Governors, in Albuquerque.
(Glimpse of misleading slate referring to Colorado River and Texas.) Next the Elephant Butte Dam on the Rio Grande River, near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. It is seen from the spillway side, with large amounts of water being discharged. Several persons walk along a stone wall overlooking the spillways. Closeup of the water being discharged
Opening scene shows lake formed upriver of the Elephant Butte Dam on the Rio Grande River in New Mexico. Camera focuses on hilly islands in the lake. Views from upstream, of the dam, with water levels fairly low. A touring car drives on the roadway above the dam and passes a lone pedestrian walking across the dam. Next, swirling waters are seen in the river below the dam. Some form a whirlpool, of sorts. Others are seen simply flowing in rough waves. View of several dam-related buildings on high ground beside the river. The dam looms above them. Closeup of water surging from dam discharge. Brief view of a dam (unidentified) with water overflowing it.
Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover in New York, United States. The former President at a press conference in a hotel on his 84th birthday. Hoover seated and a few pressmen beside him holding microphones. Several cameramen at cameras. Herbert Hoover smiling.
A train wreck in New York, United States, near border of New York and New Jersey. Two Erie Railroad trains collided on a railway track. Several men beside the collision area. Damaged compartments of the trains on the track. A railway official moving between seats inside one of the trains. Dislocated seats and broken windows. Firemen and volunteers removing bodies from the trains. A group of men inside one of the trains trying to remove the dead bodies stuck between the parts of the train. Two men standing on ladders kept against a train and holding a white piece of cloth. Men moving bodies on stretchers. Several men in the collision area.
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