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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. )

Location: Staten Island New York USA
Date: 1933
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077065
Simulation of a jet crash in a residential area during the Third Annual Fire Chief Steel Conference in Long Island, New York.

The Third Annual Fire Chief Steel Conference in Long Island, New York. Simulation of a jet crash in a residential area. Emphasis on latest methods of coping with blazing jet fuel. Heavy columns of smoke rise up from the wrecked aircraft. The firemen douse the fire with fire hoses.

Location: Long Island New York USA
Date: 1957, May 30
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077120
U.S forces intercept and shoot down Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy in Bougainville Island (WW2)

United States airmen on wing and fueling a P-38 Lightning aircraft to prepare for a mission in World War II. A military jeep carrying some airmen drives by. An airman gets off the jeep and runs to a P-38. The United States airman climbs the P-38 and takes his seat, his comrade closes the aircraft canopy. An airman closes his aircraft canopy. A P-38 with engines running. A fighter-bomber (Lockheed P-38 Lightning) begins to taxi in the airfield. An airman in the control tower signals using a light. The Lockheed P-38 Lightning takes off from the airfield. A group of Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft zoom in the sky. Aerial shot of Bougainville Island coast. Japanese Zeroes flying in the sky, seen via gun camera footage. Two Japanese bombers are flying, one of the bombers catches fire after it was attacked by American aircraft. A Lockheed P-38 Lightning slightly angles in a maneuver. A Lockheed P-38 Lightning fires at the Japanese in front. A Lockheed P-38 Lightning chases and fires at the Japanese aircraft, a Mitsubishi Betty. Cockpit aims at Japanese aircraft. A Lockheed P-38 Lightning fires, the Japanese bomber is hit and explodes into a ball of fire. Three Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft fly in the sky. Three airmen, Lieutenant Besby Holmes, Captain Tom Lanphier and Lieutenant Rex T. Barber, laugh facing the camera. Ending slate.

Location: Bougainville Island Papua New Guinea
Date: 1943, April 18
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078973
Curtiss P-40 aircraft of the USAAC 8th Pursuit Group on the flight line at Mitchel Field, and airborne over shore of Long Island, New York.

View from the front, of Curtiss P-40 aircraft, from the U.S. Army Air Corps 8th Pursuit Group parked side-by-side with engines running on the flight line of Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York. View from their rear. Next, three flights of three aircraft each are flying at low altitude, over the shore and waters of Long Island.

Location: Long Island New York United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042519
'Aquazanies' entertain with comedy diving acts at an Aquashow in Flushing, Long Island.

'Aquazanies' entertain with comedy diving acts at an Aquashow in Flushing, Long Island. A diver takes position on a diving board at the pool. He executes a forward somersault dive. 'Aquazanies', a troop of men who perform comedy and diving acts. Aquazanies dressed in funny costumes rush onto the diving boards, and jump into the water. They dance outside the pool. Several stunt jumps of the aqua zanies are seen, as they jump from spring and platform boards, including stunts where the divers jump together, intersect during jumps, and belly flop into the pool.

Location: Flushing Long Island New York USA
Date: 1949, September 2
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020791
The battleship USS Tennessee undergoing initial sea trials in Long Island Sound, after fitting out.

The U.S. Navy battleship, USS Tennessee (BB-43) passing the camera while conducting trials on Long Island Sound, in October, 1920, after being fitted out following her commissioning at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on on June 3, 1920. Her triple turret 14-inch guns are clearly visible as is the name, Tennessee, on her stern. She is seen again, raising plumes of black smoke as she steams in the opposite direction. All four of her triple 14-inch gun turrets are visible in silhouette. She is making good speed in very calm waters. (The camera ship is challenged to keep pace.) The Tennessee maneuvers to port in a fairly sharp turn, and the camera ship moves into her wake. A civilian, in hat and overcoat, is seen momentarily on the camera ship. More views of the Tennessee, include some from a distance as she maneuvers and heads toward the camera ship.

Location: Long Island Sound United States USA
Date: 1920, October
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027602
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