This color educational film is about the progress of man in making the Concorde Airplane and in creating rockets to get to space. This is circa the late 1960s as we haven’t gotten to the moon just yet – and the Concorde is still being tested.
Opening titles: Inter Nationes Zeigt (:09-:13) A plane lands at LAX, Los Angles International Airport. Interior and exterior shots of LAX. The Theme Building, an iconic Space Age structure. Cars drive around the airport. Cars packed together on the road. A huge aircraft. Closeup on parts of the plane. People walk around an airport. Engineers work on airline plans. Sketches for a new Concorde Plane. People work on different plans for the Concorde plane (:14-2:21). A model of a future Concorde plane. Engines for the jet are tested. A simulator is in use. Models of the plane are subjected to wind tunnel tests. The plane is tested as it will be using supersonic speeds (2:22-4:15). A cockpit opens. A hand maneuvers a stickshift. A futuristic car is being tested. It goes fast down a road past some tall towers. Cape Kennedy, Florida is where a Saturvn V rocket is going to launch. A bulldozer pushes dirt. Huntsville, AL is where the rockets motors are being tested. A test is conducted and flame shoots from a port. Close on the flames. Close on a fuselage at Boeing in New Orleans. An engineer walks by a rocket. Rockets are being worked on (4:16-7:45). Solar System diagram. Earth and other planets are shown. Jupiter and Saturn are shown close up. Close on earth. A diagram shows how a craft will travel to the moon from Earth. Astronauts practice being without gravity and float. The men twist and turn during practice. An astronaut practices getting into a lunar module. He floats inside of it and looks at things (7:46-10:56). Jets in formation fly past Cape Kennedy. A rocket takes off from Cape Kennedy. It goes ever so high and leaves the atmosphere. It is in space. A lunar module floats in space. An astronaut floats in space as he leaves the module. The module floats in space. Space footage. Footage of flying over earth (10:57-13:59).
An astronaut is being tested in a chair. Close up shots of the moon, various stills of the moon. A model of a possible moonbase. Various paintings and models of a possible future. A test plane. Various shots of the galaxy and stars (14:00-16:33). Blackness, no credits (16:34-16:44)
The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a British-French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated until 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04 (1,354 mph or 2,180 km/h at cruise altitude), with seating for 92 to 128 passengers. First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued flying for the next 27 years. It is one of only two supersonic transports to have been operated commercially; the other is the Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144, which operated in the late 1970s.
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