https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/212da03b-9a89-41b9-ab01-e239dd12c4a5 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com View our Amazon store here: https://amzn.to/3XQHsVD This film features highlights of the early era of the Soviet space program and presents the launching of Sputnik and Laika. This satellite launching set of the start of the US vs USSR space race. The film focuses on the launching of Sputnik and Laika; the canine astronaut. Sputnik was the first artificial earth satellite to be prolled into space. This launching lead to an acceleration in technological advances around the globe. It took off on October 4th, 1957 in an elliptical low earth orbit from site no 1/5 at the 5th Tyuratam range in Kazakh. The silver sphere was 58 cm equipped with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. Sputnik would provide scientists with valuable information about the ionosphere and the density of upper atmosphere. Transmissions received from Sputnik were monitored by amateur radio operations around the world. After 3 months in orbit, Sputnik burned up on January 4th, 1958. The title screen opens the film (:13). Images of clippings from Moscow papers report the start of the space race (:15). US headlines read Russia sends a "manmade moon" into orbit (:18). An animation details the launching of Sputnik (:39). Images from actual Soviet films (:49) show the facilities required to launch and track the silver satellite (1:09). The narrator notes a scientist stands buried in the center screen amid equipment. Another animation shows Sputnik’s orbit (1:14). It circled the globe once every 96 minutes. Images of the marble moon follow (1:40). Tape recorders tracked Sputnik’s signals delivered to earth (1:47). The canine astronaut; Laika (1:55) was to be used for the second Sputnik launch. Laika is set into an enclosed air-conditioned capsule (1:59) and wired with instruments recording her temperature and heartbeat. The preliminary flight employed two canines (2:24). The craft shoots up (2:30). The furry passengers attempt to adjust to a weightless environment (2:38). The narrator details the grim fate of Laika (2:52). Soviet films show student groups (3:00) tracking the satellite. Eisenhower began to push the US to reach the same scientific advances of the USSR. Scenes from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Headquarters (3:18) follow. US research scientists began accelerating the rocket program in response. Within the gas dynamics lab (3:27); new liquid fuels were being perfected. Other research was put into streamlining missiles (3:40) which could reach speeds capable of reaching the moon. Other obstacles the US space team had to tackle are presented (3:56). A nose cone is shown to disintegrate in a dramatizing (4:10). Project ‘Farside’ is featured (4:21) this called for a large balloon to carry a four stage rocket to a height of 100,000 ft. The rocket is pictured (4:28) as the balloon was sent off from the Pacific. The ascent was slow (4:52). Research scientists track the balloon (4:56). An IBM data recording machine (5:13) precedes missile tests (5:18). The film concludes with a dream of interplanetary travel (5:59). This was a Pictoreel film (6:17).  Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LZsj74F_xQ Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:39:15 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/212da03b-9a89-41b9-ab01-e239dd12c4a5 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.