First in-silo launch of liquid fueled ICBM Titan VS-1 from Silo Launch Test Facility,Vandenberg. Code named 'Silver Saddle' the Titan carries a dummy second stage. Ground level surface of silo. Flames ignite from two silo ducts after initial ignition. Missile emerges from ground and climbs up in to sky. 3 May 1961. (Note: This launch was an engineering test of the range safety destruct system as well as a prototype Titan II silo, as that missile was still over a year away from its first launch. Following first stage burnout, the dummy second stage, which was filled with water, was detonated. The water formed an ice cloud that was then photographed. This experiment would later be performed on two Saturn I launches.)
Atlas 15 F missile launches from operational prototype silo lift launcher. Missile elevates to position, LOX venting, ignition and take off. View of the Atlas 15 F missile ascending in the sky.
Mrs. Anna Van Skike swims 20 miles to celebrate her birthday. For her marathon distance swim she is garbed in a swimming costume or swimsuit which was popular in 1890. Her grand children and great grandchildren cheer her on.
Girls ride on rubber boats towed behind a motor boat. The girls come out of water on the sandy beach. They sit in an open car and drive to the snow covered mountains of Lake Arrowhead. The girls skiing and Bob-sledding in the snow.
An ice covered slide at a beach in Venice, California. Girls wearing swim suits move down an ice covered slide at a beach in Vernice, California. Girls move down the slide and land amidst the surf at the beach.
Home-made deep sea scuba diving suits in Venice Beach, California. Men don hot water boiler diving helmets and get into water. Women stand on beach and pump bicycle syle air pumps to provide air through long black tubes extending to the divers. Divers come out of the ocean water carrying a "treasure" box from bottom of the ocean floor. Woman comes out of the treasure box as they open it.
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