Robert Kronfeld Austria's glider pilot crosses the English Channel in round trip glide. He is congratulated at by the people at St. Inglevert airfield near Calais, France, after winning the Annual Glider Meet. He handled a motor less aircraft from France to England and back again the same day. A French aircraft crashes while landing during the competition. 20 June 1931.
High society debutantes and their escorts perform the old time minuet outside Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. View of front façade of the Independence Hall (520 Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S). The young women and young men dance in period 18th century clothing. The event was organized to recall days of Alexander Hamilton, the most influential of the United States' founding fathers.
Wooden fishing sailboats returning to shore in Canso, Nova Scotia, in the 1920s. Nets seen on some decks. A fisherman shovels fish from his hold onto the dock. Fishing boats clustered against a dock. Fishermen filleting fish on the dock. A buyer making offer to fisherman for fish in basket on a scale. He receives only 75 cents for a full day's catch. His wife is busy scrubbing clothes in an outdoor tub, when he gives her the 75 cents. She is disappointed. The Reverend Doctor, J.J.Tompkins, Rector of St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, proposes that the University and wider community collaborate to improve lives of the people.He is seen meeting with a group of fishermen on the shore.View of British-Canadian Co-Operative Society Limited, offices in Nova Scotia. Father Tompkins holding a pamphlet entitled: "Co-Operation, A plan for Tomorrow which works today." He studies the pamphlet. Fishermen peruse the pamphlet. Dr. Tompkins conversing with fishermen.
A horse-sleigh full of American children moves on snow. Two boys throw snow balls at other children on the sleigh as it passes by them. Students of varying ages sit and smile in a one room school house class room. Most of the desks accommodate two students side by side. Though some of the desks have only one student. Next scene show the students outside the school building on a snowy day, after school or during recess. Some are sledding alone or together on sleds, while others start a snow ball fight and are seen throwing snow on each other. A group of boys use a ladder to help climb a tree trunk. They then climb out far onto smaller branches and hang on as the narrower branches bend downward to where they can jump down onto the ground.
A large crowd witnesses the National Balloon Race. Balloons are dispersed among the crowd. Passengers seen in baskets attached to balloons as they take off one by one to begin the race as crowd cheers them on. Balloons fly in the air. (Note: This event took place near the present-day intersection of Bellaire Blvd. and Stella Link Rd.)
President Ignacy Mościcki of Poland is received by Estonian Prime Minister Otto August Strandman on his first visit to Reval, Estonia (present day Tallinn, Estonia). The President shakes hands with Estonian army generals. Children wave at President Mościcki. The president moves with others. Army marches and salutes. Women in traditional Estonian dresses smile. The President raises his hat to soldiers.
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