# Proeven met het catapultvliegtuig aan boord van De Ruyter

The Dutch cruiser "De Ruyter" lifts up a seaplane on the high seas - by launching it with a steam(?) catapult - and this plane is brought back on board after landing at sea. SHOTS: -Div. shots seaplane flies above the sea and lands on the water; is towed to ship by motorboat that sailed out; is fished out of the water by crane and brought back on board; -group of naval officers and some civilians looks on; -De Ruyter sails along harbour head into the sea (Den Helder?); -div. shots seaplane is shot from launching position on deck into the air.

- Kind: Film
- By: Polygoon-Profilti (producent)
- Archive: [Europeana](https://www.europeana.eu/item/2051906/data_euscreenXL_https___www_openbeelden_nl_media_667512)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.