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German A-4 (also known as V-2) missile test flight from Peenemunde, Germany island during World War 2.

German A-4 ballistic missile being test fired in Peenemunde, Germany during World War II. A-4 missile also known as V-2 rocket on a launch pad. Missile being launched in the evening. Missile lifts off leaving behind a fiery flare. A-4 Missile in flight as it emits smoke and fiery flare. A-4 missile descends leaving behind a vapor trail.

Date: 1944
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077619
German V-2 rocket test from island in Peenemunde, Germany during World War 2. Test flight of A4 missile (V-2 rocket)

German V-2 rocket, a ballistic missile known by German military as the A4, being test fired in Peenemunde, Germany during World War 2. Launch tower seen and V-2 rocket on a launch pad. Rocket lift off. Rocket ascends (tree limbs visible partially framing image), rocket in flight and descending.

Date: 1944
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077677
Natives of Gambell village go walrus hunting on St. Lawrence Island.

Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. Natives of Gambell village (indigenous Yupik people) go walrus hunting. A native with a harpoon. Walruses on the ice sheet. Man strikes the walrus with a harpoon. The walrus dives. Skin and floats are attaches to the line as a drag. Walrus in water. Natives in a boat. Natives pose with walrus tusks aboard the whaler.

Date: 1915
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020844
During Prohibition: A battle between the U.S. Coast Guard and liquor smugglers on boats off Long Island, New York.

Two boats move in water. A U.S. Coast Guard vessel approaches a liquor smuggler's boat (during Prohibition). Sound of guns firing. U.S. Coast Guard pursuing the bootleggers running liquor. Both the boats move fast in water.

Date: 1933, December 4
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023920
American men and women do sand-planing along the Atlantic coast in Southampton, Long Island, New York

American men and women do sand-planing along the Atlantic coast in Southampton. Sand-planing is a combination of winter sledding and summer aqua-planing, with a mid sized board, reinforced with aluminum, dragged behind a jeep at 30 miles per hour. Ropes are tied to an Aluminum board at one end, and to a jeep at the other end. Jeep pulls the aluminum board on which a person stands and sand-planes. The boards in some views enter the shallows of the surf (early skim boarding or skimboard concept).

Date: 1951, July 2
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025746
Models compete in Miss Modern Venus Beauty Contest at Steeplechase park on Coney Island.

Miss Modern Venus peagant undergoes at Steeplechase park. Glamorous models parade in swimsuits. First shots of girls filmed in distortion mirrors. Girls parade round ramp built on pool. Cameraman pulls on dolly along line. Girls are measured and judges mark them. Winner Anne Gervis of Brooklyn poses with cup for camera. July 1941.

Date: 1941, July
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028752