Here is a short news roll film of the USS Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt leaving New York Harbor. In addition to that, the film features prisoners of war training, aerial workers repairing St. Patrick’s Cathedral and other news events. Interesting footage concerning the re-training of German prisoners of war. The link is below.
https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.39090
From the 1960 NASA archives comes a film showing the launch of an Atlas ICBM carrying a payload of research instruments at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
https://archive.org/details/1960-05-23_florida?start=0.5
The NASA film captures the rocket fire and lift-off as well as a shot of the engineers at some of the control stations. Terrific older film saved in the archives for today’s online audience.
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