Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe Charles Hans, who produced this film, built the first operating movie camera for use in model rockets in 1962-63 or so (my guess for the approximate date of this film). This camera is shown at about 4:45. Of course now we have keychain video cameras which can be used on almost any rocket. But in the 1960s a movie camera on a rocket was amazing.
Rainee Day: Congrats to Paul for what was truly a ground breaking achievement. And today RU-vid is full of rocket videos following his pioneering first steps.
I remember watching this in sixth or seventh grade when my industrial arts teacher got us into rocketry. We built our own launcher as well as a rocket. There was one girl in the class named Kathy. She became my girlfriend.
