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"Smiles" O' Timmons, disabled daredevil, dives from 100 ft. at the Annual Firemen's Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

"Smiles" O' Timmons, who has lost and arm and a leg, climbs a ladder at the Annual Firemen's Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and then performs stunt in which he dives from a height of 100 feet into a small pool containing water only 4 feet deep.

Location: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA
Date: 1929, August 21
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035085
A huge thirty passenger amphibious plane tested in Navy Yard of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

German amphibious plane tested. Crowd gathered around plane. Men work on plane. Plane slides down in water. Men assist flight operations. Planes in flight over water.

Location: Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA
Date: 1929, September 11
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052209
The U.S. Army Air Service Fokker C-2A named "Question Mark" being refueled in midair from a Douglas C-1, in 1929.

Mid air refueling experiments in January, 1929. A U.S. Army Air Service Douglas C-1 tanker plane, with hose trailing below it, flies above a modified Atlantic-Fokker C-2A named "Question Mark." The hose is let down to the Question Mark, where a crew member seizes it and makes a connection for fuel transfer. After transfer of fuel is complete, the crew member throws the fuel line off and it is retrieved by the tanker plane. The Question Mark lands at Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys, California on January 7, 1929, and taxiis in to park. The crew members, including Major Carl A. Spaatz, Captain Ira C. Eaker, Lieutenant Harry A. Halverson, Lieutenant Elwood R.(Pete) Quesada, and Staff Sergeant Roy W. Hooe, all exit the airplane and gather under the wing with well wishers. The five crew members pose for photographs beside their airplane, the "Question Mark." Ground crew tows the aircraft with a tractor.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051736
History of the circus in North America, and scenes of early circus circa 1920s and early 1930s arriving and performing in a town

History of the circus in North America. Scenes of drawings, sketches, still photographs, and newspaper clippings regarding the circus. Cites George Washington donating a horse to the circus. Discussion of18th Century English circus organizer, John Bill Ricketts, and a newspaper clipping promoting his circus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sketch of his circus hall in Philadelphia. Scenes and information about P.T. Barnum and the famous elephant Jumbo, and singer Jenny Lind, known as "the Swedish Nightingale." Drawing of men with rings standing on stools. Drawing of a cab in front of a building. Promotional sign for the Central Park Menagerie and International Circus Company. Vintage footage with scenes of a Ringling Brother Barnum and Bailey circus train arriving in a city circa late 1920s, pulled by a steam locomotive. Circus performers. Crowds of circus goers milling near a Side Shows entrance sign. A clown inflating the clothes of another clown to a giant size. Chimpanzee rides an elephant and a donkey stands near its foal. Lions, hippos, giraffes, dogs in the circus. Large crowd present during the circus viewing elephant, horse and lion show of the circus. Scenes of the circus parade processing around the big top tent. A tamer handling a female lion (tamer appears to be Clyde Beatty). A male lion walking on high wire parallel tightrope.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675023773
Octagon House, White House, the State and Navy buildings in City of Washington, United States.

View of the original State and the Navy buildings at 2107 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. View of the Octagon House which later served as a temporary White House. View of the White House.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025672
Proposed construction of government buildings and inaugural parade in Washington DC

Construction of Agriculture Department buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue and the Capitol building. Proposed construction of Departments of Justice buildings, Government's Archives building and the Interstate Commerce Commission buildings on the plan. American Troops parade. Capitol building in background. General John Joseph 'Black Jack' Pershing leads the parade. President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice William Howard Taft review the inaugural parade.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025682
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