The Goddard Rocket Film Reels

Reel 09: P-Series of Tests (P1-P15), January 1939 - February 1940

Type

Video

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Date

1939-1940

Description

The Goddard Rocket Film Reels consists of twelve four-hundred-foot 16mm black-and-white film reels documenting Robert Goddard's experimental work with rockets in Auburn, Massachusetts, Roswell, New Mexico, and Annapolis, Maryland from 1926 through 1945. These reels were restruck in the mid-1960s, which were then digitized several years ago. Some, and very likely all, of these home movies were shot by Robert's wife Esther C. Goddard.

Reel 9 consists of P1-P15 from Robert Goddard's P-Series of Tests. These tests were experiments in developing propellant pumps (P1-4), developing a gas generator to run turbines (P5-P12), and the start of rocket tests using propellant turbopumps (P13-15; these experiments would run to P36, most of which can be found in Reel 10). The footage that follows Test P15 (at the 07:49 mark) features a remarkable series of close-ups demonstrating varying pieces of rocket machinery mechanics. This is followed by footage of the rocket being loaded into the launching tower.

This list of intertitles gives a detailed account of the footage contained in this reel:

P-Series of Tests, January 1939 – August 1941, to Develop Pumps for Liquid Oxygen and Gasoline

(00:05) Tests P1 – P14: Series of Preliminary Static Tests
(00:09) P1
(01:00) P3
(01:10) P4
(01:30) Test P5 A, Test of Pump Performance at the Shop
(01:51) P5
(01:56) P6
(02:41) P7
(02:55) P8
(03:38) P9
(03:53) P10
(04:31) P11
(05:21) P12
(06:30) P13
(07:00) P14
(07:49) P15

Duration

00:11:39

Genre

home movies

Keywords

Robert H. Goddard, rocketry, home movies, motion picture film, pump-fed rockets, turbopumps, fuel pumps, turbines, propellant pumps

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