Scenes of rural Cuba. Men on horses accompany others leading laden pack animals. They move along a dirt path, past rural huts with thatch roofs. One man on horseback, smokes a cigar and carrys a goat. Two little girls watch from their back yard. A man climbs up a large tall palm tree,and slides back down rapidly, using rope as an aid. A woman poses smiling, with two baby girls in her arms. Group of children chew on sugar cane.
In a speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, U.S. Secretary of State, George Marshall, refers to repeated vetoes by a permanent member of the Security Council. He discusses the post-war state of the world and the many matters yet to be resolved, including the independence of Austria, the Palestine issue, the matter of Korea, still divided along the 38th parallel, and status of nations in Eastern Europe, etc.
An officer in flak jacket looks through binoculars on USS Mansfield (DD-738) during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. A man inside bridge talks on phone plotting some information. Captain Brooks W Setzer, Commanding Officer, Destroyer Division 152, donning his flak jacket. An officer looks through binoculars. Signalman uses a signal light to send a message to the USS Hanson (DD-832) in a distance. A second signalman looks through a telescope.
An animation showing mountain peaks and 20 km marked on a vertical line. Picture of sky with moon and stars. Animation showing distance between moon and earth, 400000 km marked on a straight line plotted between moon and earth. Demonstration of rocket principle in nature using plants. Cotyledons of a seedling is touched from among a pot of seedlings. The cotyledons frees with a jerk.
Rockets used in motor vehicles in Germany. An Opel motorcycle with rocket boosters and exhausts fitted on it. A man rides the motorcycle, releasing large amount of smoke from exhausts. 'Volkhart R-R1 Sander-Raketen' written on a motorcycle.
Descriptions and diagrams of various model airplanes used in experiments with solid powder propulsion, in Germany starting in 1927. Diagram of a 'Storch' model airplane. Diagram of "Ente"(Duck) model airplane. An Opel full scale model "Ent" airplane being checked out on a launching rail at an airfield. Fritz von Opel makes adjustments at the rear of the airplane and, assisted by several other men, moves the airplane along the launch ramp and back again. On the side of the plane is written: "Sander AK-1." Photographers take pictures. The first manned test of an Opel "ent" airplane is undertaken by the Research Institute of the RhonRossitten-Gesellschaft (RRG) under the direction of Fritz Stamer. In the first three trials the airplane fails to rise and simply skids along the ground. However, on the 4th try, it successfully flies off the launch rail in an extended high speed flight, for three-quarters of a mile in just under one minute. The successful flight is then shown in slow motion from two different camera angles.
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