https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9de5ac29-6a94-4a57-a170-5370d1bb001f 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 This 1960s Soviet film "Flight of Gagarin into Space" introduces viewers to the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man to become a cosmonaut / astronaut by entering outer space and completing one orbit on 12 April 1961, with his flight taking 108 minutes.. Gagarin’s childhood and journey to becoming a cosmonaut are shared in this short documentary. "Gagarin Into Space" also includes footage and audio from the first flight into space as well as footage from the celebrations worldwide upon his triumphant return from space in the Vostok 1 spacecraft.   00:11 Opening credits 00:12 Portrait of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin 00:30 Film title: Gagarin’s Flight into Space 00:39 Peaceful shot of trees reflected in water 00:42 View of a house along a lake in the countryside 00:44 Gagarin’s mother, Anna Timofeyevna, working outside the house 00:47 Footage of an old photograph of Gagarin and his friends as children 00:50 Series of portraits of Gagarin as a young boy to an adolescent 1:00 Portrait of Gagarin in uniform as a young boy 1:02 Portrait of Gagarin in a flight cap 1:03 Soviet plane flying 1:08: Gagarin training for space - possibly in a Gravity Simulator (?) 1:13 Sign saying: ‘Warning’ 1:20 Gagarin in a pressure chamber 1:28 Gagarin hiking 1:38 Officials looking at the Vostok 1 spacecraft in a warehouse 1:48 Gagarin in the Vostok spacecraft 1:53 Front of the Vostok 1 spacecraft in a warehouse 1:57 View of sun beginning to rise 2:04 View of windows lit up against a still dark morning 2:16 Bus driving down a road 2:19 Gagarin in a spacesuit being attended by colleagues 2:25 The Vostok spacecraft at the launchpad 2:31 Gagarin hugging goodbye to his colleagues 2:37 Gagarin walking up the stairs to the Vostok 2:51 The base of the Vostok 1 preparing for blast-off 2:57 Gagarin in a horizontal position in the spacecraft preparing for departure 3:04 Rockets at the bottom of the spaceship ignited 3:07 Vostok 1 blasting off 3:18 Chief designer of the Vostok 1, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev talking into a microphone 3:23 View of the control room 3:30 Blurry photo of Gagarin in the Vostok 1 3:33 Footage of the earth from space 3:49 Landing craft of Vostok 1 spacecraft 3:51 Man with parachute 3:56 Gagarin departing from aircraft in uniform and walking down carpet laid out for him 4:01 Sign saying ‘We believed in it!’ held up by supports of Gagarin 4:05 Celebratory motorcade with Gagarin’s car dressed in flowers and crowds cheering on either side 4:13 ZIL-111  limousine decorated with flowers with Gagarin standing up in it waving to supporters 4:17 Aerial view of the Soviet flag and the masses of crowds 4:20 Gagarin standing on a podium waving 4:22 Young children and boys waving at the camera holding flags 4:26 Gagarin greeting the crowds with his arms full of flowers 4:36 Men riding camels 4:37 Great Pyramid of Giza 4:40 Unidentified man waving from a camel (Possible Gagarin?) 4:41 Crowds in Japan cheering and waving flags 4:44 Gagarin with a Sapanpe wrapped around his head 4:48 Gagarin being wrapped in a ceremonial Japanese shawl 4:56 Gagarin surrounded by children at the Moscow Palace of Pioneers 5:05 Montage of young boys dressed up in pretend space suits 5:25 Handwriting out a signature 5:26 End credits  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, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzG-WC2HpII Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:00:51 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/9de5ac29-6a94-4a57-a170-5370d1bb001f 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.