Scenes from the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. Faces of smiling children in audience as they watch trapeze performance. A globe with 'The Greatest Show on Earth' appears prior to the tiger show. Tiger raises its forefeet on the back of a man. Tigers stand on stools. Men on cycles play basketball. In an elephant show, women stand on the back of elephants and then ,the elephant swings a woman in its trunk. Leopard show is also seen. Artists perform various stunts on ground.
Host for show "Ahora" stands in an empty circus ring of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus. Audience chairs and circus rings can be seen as he speaks. Slides of ' AHORA' and 'Titanes de la Carpa Grande' appear.
Machines seen inside a flour mill. Workers download flour gunny bags from a table. Workers moving flour gunny bags loaded on a hand cart on a railway platform.
A hair dresser restyles, sets and glazes hair of a model. Models exhibit various hair styles. Their hair is styled differently than the short bobbed hair popular in the 1920's.
Men and women stand and move around on a platform in Chicago. Gangster Al Capone along with officials arrives at the station and is seated in a train car. He tries to hide his face from the photographers present at the station.Several friends and family wave sorrowfully as he boards the train.
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.)
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