Moon Rockets

Moon Rockets 1947

This short is one of Paramount's "Popular Science" series (number L6-5, or the fifth one of the 1946-47 production season) and begins by showing moon rockets, weighing 30 tons, a flight in the ionosphere, with mounted color cameras recording pictures hundreds of miles above the earth. Coming back to earth, it discourses on modern bathroom fixtures, and then demonstrates a one-man hay-bailer.

  • Released: 1947-06-06
  • Runtime: 10 minutes
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Stars: Gayne Whitman
  • Director: Robert Carlisle