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German man thrills crowd by climbing up side of a building and riding his bicycle on its parapet during a stunt in Berlin.

Opening slate in English, describes man as a "human fly," who clambers up the side of a building, in Berlin, Germany. He uses handholds on gaps in the stonework, and climbs up a drain pipe. Huge crowd is gathered to watch the stunt. The man hoists his bicycle up from the ground with a rope and rides the bicycle back and forth on the parapet of the building. View from the building parapet, of the man riding his bicycle, with rooftops and smoke rising from chimneys in background. Signs partially visible on the building include the words- 'Siegmund' and 'Verbandstorff-Fabriken'.

Date: 1930, December 8
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026888
A Dornier Do-X passenger airplane flying boat takes off in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

A Do-X flying boat in water in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Men on the plane. They board the plane and take their seats. The plane takes off. Flight of the plane. High altitude view of the city. Passengers look outside the plane.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027460
A dockyard in Stratford, Victoria Australia

A dockyard in Stratford, Victoria Australia. Aerial view of the city. Roads and houses in the city.

Date: 1930
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027568
Nomadic group in North Africa, possibly Egypt, touring with camels, playing drums, and showing horsemanship skills

A decorated wooden cart on rails to carry royal leaders or dignitaries. A woman with headdress covering watches from a door opening in the cart. A decorated camel on a path. A boy dressed in white with a white cap sits on the camel and boys play drums mounted on the camels. Men hold the camels. Men wearing fez hats sit on decorated horses and show off equestrian dressage skills with the horses. Camel caravan passes by in a sand covered area. People sit on the ground as caravan passes by. Man on a high cliff looks out over a low valley and city at sunset.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027571
Measures for eradication of marine borer and destroyed marine pillars at Beaufort in United States.

Measures for the eradication of marine borer in Beaufort, United States. Chemist places small containers covered with cloths on a table. Marine borer on a wood. Wrecked marine pillars.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028368
Marine pillars intoxicated with chemical compounds to save them from the marine borer at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland.

Measures for the eradication of marine borer at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. Man at the pier inspects the piling. The piling is destroyed completely by the marine borer. Man watches the wrecked wood. He cuts a part of the wood and watches it. He takes the marine borer 'Bankia Gouldi' in hand. The head of the pest. Man impregnates the marine pillars with toxic compounds. Another man helps him. The pillars are placed in an apparatus to impregnate them with toxic compounds. Man watches and compares both types of wood before and after intoxicating.

Date: 1930
Duration: 4 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028369