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George Edward Pendray launches The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fueled rocket from Staten Island in New York, United States.

The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fuel rocket is launched from Staten Island in New York, United States in 1933. George Edward Pendray of the AIS, and his associate preparing for the launch. The 7 1/2 foot rocket is placed on a stand. Other men look on. The rocket, fueled with gasoline and liquid oxygen, takes off. Its fuel tank overheats and explodes moments after takeoff and the rocket crashes to the beach below. (From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier. The world's first successful liquid fuel rocket was launched by Robert Goddard in Auburn, Massachusetts, on 16 March 1926. This film records the first such attempt under auspices of the American Interplanetary Society, in 1933. )

Date: 1933
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077065
Doctor giving penicillin treatment to wounded American soldiers at Halloran General Hospital in Staten Island, New York.

Penicillin treatment of wounded American soldiers in action during World War II.at Halloran General Hospital in Staten Island, New York. Doctor packs penicillin into deep buttock wound. Nurse injects substance into a patient's arm. Doctor packs thigh wound with a penicillin.

Date: 1944, January
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074315
View of skyscrapers from the Queensboro Bridge,59th Street Bridge over the East River in New York.

The skyline of New York. View of Queensboro Bridge, the 59th Street Bridge, a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City. The skyscrapers seen in the background. View of the skyscrapers from Governors Island. Staten Island Ferry underway at sea in the foreground.

Date: 1954, June 24
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072569
Traffic at the interchange of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and The Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, New York City.

Traffic in Brooklyn, New York City. View from Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, looking at the Verrazzano Bridge over The Narrows, the strait joining Upper New York Bay and Lower New York Bay. Vehicles moving on the Parkway and on the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge. Slow pan across the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge from the Brooklyn side to the Staten Island side.

Date: 1971
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033334
Verrazzano Bridge across the Narrows of New York Bay

Traffic on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, New York, near the exit to the Verrazzano Bridge across the Narrows in New York Bay. View of the bridge, extending over the highway. A work barge is tied up at one of the bridge piers. Pan across the bridge to Fort Wadsworth on the Staten Island side. A ship proceeds under the bridge towards New York harbor. Two trucks are seen crossing the upper deck towards Brooklyn. No vehicles are seen on the lower deck which is not yet open to traffic.

Date: 1965
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033336
View of skyscrapers from the Governors Island in New York.

The skyline of New York City. View of skyscrapers as seen from Governors Island. Staten Island Ferry underway in water in the foreground.

Date: 1954, June 24
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072570