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Summary: Test site and testing of V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico. Reels 1 & 2: ADS: Guided missile proving ground, probably Alamagordo, New Mexico shaving the veritcal launching tower for small-type missiles, also the gantry crane. V-2 on ground nearby. PS: ot surrounding country side. All scenes taken from the air. ADS: Control house and installations at guided missile proving grounds. Ground PS: White Sands Proving Grounds area. MLS: Range control building, Gantry crane, V-2 launching position, and vertical launching tower for other types of missiles. Good shot of a V-2 being launched V-2 outs directly off at right angle and crashes in far bg. PS: of the area showing the Gantry crane and the smaller type missile-launching device. Good coverage of the radar installation showing various types of radar screens used in tracking the missile. CS, LS and PS: Radar installation. CS: Firing preparations on a V-2, showing a couple of workers standing on platform near base of the missile making final preparations. Good shot taken from inside the control block house out towards V-2 in firing position. PS: from base up to warhead of the V-2, showing final preparations. Good shot of V-2 in firing position, workmen on ladders working on warhead section of the V-2. Excellent coverage of a radar tracking system showing the various types of radar equipment used. CS: Control house. ECS: electrical power lines leading from control house out to firing range. MCS: V-2 being raised into firing position from top of a special elevating trailer or carryall machinery. CS: Final firing preparations for the V-2. Several shots along highway showing V-2 being transported to the firing range on special type of trailer. MLS: V-2 in firing positions. V-2 being launched. High speed camera shot of V-2 being launched, camera follows it in flight. ECS: Steam generating plant used on V-2. Slate date: Sept 26, 1946. CS: Unassembled section with cut-away parts showing the moving parts of a turbo pump. Slate: Sept 26, 1946. Power unit of the V-2. ECS: Power unit unassembled or in break-down condition. CS: Control section. ECS: A drawing of a V-2 rocket. Drawing shows various parts and gives complete coverage of the V-2. CS: Chart for fueling of a V-2 -- (Ethyl alcohol, liquid oxygen, nitrogen, peroxide, calcium, promanginate, steam and exhaust). Also colored chart for each fuel. CS: Base of the V-2. Pan upward showing V-2 in firing position still held in position by the movable parts of the trailer used to carry the V-2 to launching site, or to raise it into firing position, Camera pans up to men working on final firing preparations of V-2. MCS: V-2 in firing position as the equipment is lowered and moved away. MLS: White Sands Proving Grounds showing a V-2 firing position. Camera stays on V-2 as it is fired and follows it in fiight into the sky. CS: Radar antenna in operation tracking the missile. Slate date: 08/07/1946. PS: Large radar tracking station showing the various types of radar equipment and heavy power lines leading into the station. Scenes of the radar equipment are of the White Sands Proving Gorunds Radar Tracking station and show the various types of radar equipment in operation. CS: V-2 being hauled out of hangar building, White Sands Proving Ground. Good