“ MODEL ROCKETRY - THE LAST FRONTIER ” 1977 ESTES ROCKETS w/ WILLIAM SHATNER CINEROC XD45444

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1977 color promotional film hosted by Star Trek actor William Shatner spotlights Estes’ Alpha III starter kit, the Scissor-Wing Transport, and Starship Enterprise flying model rockets (TRT: 15:20). A title card with the Estes logo and address in Penrose, Colorado (0:12). Opening titles, “Model Rocketry” and “The Last Frontier” over a model of the Starship Enterprise of Star Trek fame (0:23). An Estes model of a NASA Apollo-era Saturn V rocket intercut with footage of real Mariner and Saturn V rockets blasting off from Cape Canaveral (0:40). 8mm footage taken by an Estes model rocket shows its flight and the deployment of a parachute bearing the Estes logo (1:20). The parachute falls on William Shatner, with his back turned. A crowd of children run through a field to meet him. He hands over the large Saturn 5 model (1:32). Closeup: Shatner speaks (1:44). A toy