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*5/9/11: Updated to include RACE FOR SPACE, and all 15 titles newly redigitized and remastered for improved image and audio quality and upgraded into a new 2 DVD set!* 15 Films Attesting To The Stuggle Between The US & The USSR To Achieve Supremacy In Space On 2 All Regions DVDs!

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RACE FOR SPACE (1961, 49 Min.)
This was the first tv documentary ever nomiated for an Academy award. It earned this honor due to first time producer David Wolper's purchase of a treasure trove of never-before-seen secret Russian space program film footage, which he was expertly tranformed in this classic documentary form and anchored with Mike Wallace's expert narration. In addition, we see interviewed Esther Goddard, who was the wife and work partner of the father of modern rocketry Robert Goddard, and Major General Holger Nelson Toftoy, the man responsible for exporting the cream of Germany's World War II rocket scientists and hardware to the United States at war's end. From the first modern literature on space rocketry by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky through the launch of Sputnik to the latest still-unmanned Soviet and American space shots, this period piece glimpse into what was then the state-of-the-art of the space program is a priceless moving image document all enthusiasts of both space and media history will enjoy.

V-8 & CHEERIOS FREE MOON ROCKET KIT TV OFFER (1960, B&W, 0:59)
A Redstone rocket launches us into an ad with two boys who eat Cheerios, drink V-8 juice and play with a plastic moon rocket toy that drops two men onto a fanciful map of the moon, which toy was available in exchange for one V-8 label plus 1 box top from either Cheerios, Kix or Frosty O's General Mills cereals.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL OCTOBER 7TH 1957: NEW MOON - REDS LAUNCH FIRST SPACE SATELLITE (1957, B&W, 0:45)
An animation depicting the means by which the Soviet Union was able to place into orbit the first man made object, the satellite Sputnik I.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL DECEMBER 22ND 1958: ATLAS IN ORBIT - RADIOS IKE'S MESSAGE OF PEACE TO WORLD (1958, B&W, 3:38)
A classic example of newsreel propaganda at its most crafted, touting the sophistication of America's most powerful launch vehicle and celebrating the historic first of broadcasting a voice message from space to the world. This achievement was made more significant by the fact that this Christmas message of President Eisenhower was transmitted from earth to the Project SCORE satellite built into orbiting Atlas and then rebroadcast from Atlas/SCORE to the people of the earth further on in its orbit, originating the process known as "store and forward" which is still in use today and marking SCORE as the world's first communications satellite.

THE BIG BOUNCE (1960, TECHNICOLOR, 14:23)
The extraordinary story of Echo, history's second communications satellite, which consisted of a huge balloon placed into orbit and off of which were bounced radio signals aimed at from earth, which technique ultimately resulted Echo's helping place the very first satellite telephone call.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL APRIL 6TH 1961: NEWS IN BRIEF - RUSSIA (1961, B&W, 0:53
The USSR releases films of space flights with dog, rat and mice passengers in craft launched to high altitude (not into orbit) and returned safely to the earth.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL APRIL 13TH 1961: COSMOS PIONEER - SOVIETS ORBIT MAN IN SPACE (1961, B&W, 0:30)
President Kennedy responds to the great Soviet achievement of putting the first man into space with comments during a press conference.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL MAY 8TH 1961: AS WORLD WATCHED - SPACEMAN HAILED AFTER U.S. TRIUMPH (1961, B&W, 1:50)
America's first man in space Alan Shepard is honored with a medal from President Kennedy awarded in a White House rose garden ceremony, and is then paraded up Pennsylvania Avenue.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL AUGUST 7TH 1961: COSMONAUT - RUSSIAN ORBITS GLOBE 17 TIMES (1961, B&W, 1:13)
Gherman Titov, at a time when America had only launched two suborbital manned flights, stunned the world with his orbiting the earth 17 times in his Vostok 2 spacecraft.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL NOVEMBER 30TH 1961: CHIMP INTO SPACE (1961, B&W, 1:38)
Eager to ensure that the Mercury-Atlas system was capable of safely sending a man into space, the chimpanzee Enos was sent into orbit to test the system first, and his success cleared the way for Astronaut John Glenn's orbital flight.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL JULY 12TH 1962: A DAY IN HISTORY - TELSTAR BRINGS WORLD CLOSER (1962, B&W, 3:17)
The world's first commercial "comsat" (communications satellite) is sent into orbit, transmits the first television picture to and from space, and becomes the vanguard of many other such telstars which enabled continuous global telephone, data, television and other communications.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL JULY 23RD 1962: KENNEDY ON TELSTAR - EUROPE SEES NEWS CONFERENCE (1962, B&W, 1:17)
The president proudly comments upon the achievements of the first commercial communications satellite as part of a press conference broadcast from the Telstar satellite to Europe.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL SEPTEMBER 13TH 1962: KENNEDY TOUR - CALLS FOR U.S. LEAD IN SPACE (1962, B&W, 2:24)
The President takes a trip to see Chief rocket scientist Werner von Braun in Huntsville, Alabama & the Mercury spacecraft, then visits Cape Canaveral, Houston Texas and Rice University where he delivers his famous "We Choose To Go To The Moon" speech, inspects the Gemini spacecraft at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, then visits the St Louis plant of McDonnell Aerospace.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL MAY 27TH 1965: SPACE POLICEMAN - PEGASUS MEASURES ACTION OF METEOROIDS (1965, B&W, 1:11)
The mighty Saturn I rocket launches Pegasus II into high altitude orbit to determine if meteroids could pose a threat to astronauts travelling through deep space.

HIGHLIGHTS 1965: A PROGRESS REPORT (1965, COLOR, 39:40)
An excellent must-see survey of the high points of American space achievements during a period when space program firsts were coming hot and heavy as the space race continued to accelerate in tempo. Beautiful color footage details many satellites, technological achievements, launch systems, aerial photography, weather surveillance, manned program recovery, animations, artists renderings, charts, the Ranger series lunar mapping probes, and so much more

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