GERMANY: QUIRKY: Rocket Car on rails in Berlin. (1928)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Video Roll Title: Opel’s Rocket car explodes: 37ft Rocket Car on Rails in Berlin (NOTE - Unclear how many rockets there are in the back of the machine) Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION CAPTION - AN EXPLODED THEORY - HERR OPEL BUILDS A CAR PROPELLED BY ROCKETS - THEY WERE GOOD ROCKETS BUT,ALAS THEY ALL WENT OFF TOGETHER Berlin, ,Germany) (probably summer of 1928) Close of inventor Herr Fritz von Opel putting rocket into the back of the car/ inventor and car on rails / Von Opel igniting vehicle/ back of car with rockets “sander“ and “ 3“ on side of vehicle/ rockets exploding /cloud of smoke/ empty track CAPTION - AND THAT’S THAT Wreckage of the rocket car at side of track/ man looking at wreckage Background: Video Roll Title: Opel’s Rocket car explodes: 37ft Rocket Car on Rails in Berlin (NOTE - Unclear how many rockets there are in the back of the machine)