Picture of a Hellmuth Walter 109-509 bipropellant rocket motor. The motor mounted in a test stand, next to an observation bunker with a slit viewing port. The rocket engine starts. Smoke comes out.
Momentary opening slate (in German) cites a new rocket car, the largest in the world, designed by German chief engineer Alfons Pietsch. Closeup of the liquid-fueled rocket car at the Heylandt factory in Berlin-Britz (Heylandt-Gesellschaft für Apparatebau mbH). The rocket engine is ignited and creates a huge flame behind the car. It travels for a while in the industrial yard of the Heylandt factory until the flame dies. (Note: At the beginning of 1930, rocket engineer Max Valier was given the opportunity to develop a liquid rocket engine at Heylandt in Britz. He was assisted by the Heylandt development engineers Alfons Pietsch, Walter Riedel and Arthur Rudolph, who built the rocket motor in a test vehicle called "hellhound" after Valier's accidental death in May, 1930.) Change of scene shows a rocket car of Max Dalier being refueled from a liquid oxygen tank. Next, the car, with "Heylandt" painted on its side, is seen with Max Valier at the controls, driving about the Heylandt factory grounds, propelled by a moderate thrust from its liquid fueled engine. It circles about the yard several times.
Still pictures of early German rockets on tripod launchers. A number of small rockets laying on the ground partially covered with a tarpaulin. Several men on a hillside with a rocket launcher pointed horizontally. Fleeting glimpse of the work shop of German rocket pioneer, Reinhold Tilling, followed by views of several men holding a Tilling postal rocket nose down with its wings folded. They are standing in tall marsh grass near lake Dümmersee. Next, Reinhold Tilling is seen with his assistant, Angela Buddenboehmer, and his mechanic Friedrich Kuhr, making adjustments to a rocket, with its wings open. Men carry the rocket with its wings folded and place it on a tall pole. Next, the rocket launches straight into the air. Men maneuver in a sailboat and other boats in the Dümmersee, preparing to retrieve a Tilling rocket. Closeup of the men in the sailboat. Several men in a long boat near marsh grass where a Tilling rocket has landed.
German Focke Achgelis Fa 223 Drache helicopter in flight over ground. A German light airplane parked at airfield. Man fastens the airplane to helicopter sling. Helicopter lifts the airplane and places it on nearby ground.
As German Focke Achgelis Fa 223 Drache helicopter hovers over a snow covered field, a man climbs down a ladder from the helicopter and then back up again. The helicopter in flight with a vehicle suspended on its sling. The helicopter picks up an airplane fuselage and flies away with it. The helicopter lands, without any cargo, at a field.
Two girls practice gymnastics in garden. Same girls, nieces of Arthur Kannenberg, pose near headlights of Mercedes car and hold out a small Nazi flag mounted near the headlights. (The older girl is likely Inger Poulsen of Elbingerode, born March 5, 1923 in Copenhagen, Denmark). Arthur Kannenberg arrives and kisses the girls. In next scene, the two girls and a third, younger girl, present a bouquet of flowers to their grandfather on his 73rd birthday. Their grandmother stands next to them. The grandmother and the girls walk along a sidewalk and are met by another man and woman, possibly the girls's parents, outside the Villa Luise. Camera pans upward showing identifying sign on the building.
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