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Workers of a circus practice jumping aerobatics over elephants in Marietta, Georgia.

Circus clowns learn leaping in Marietta, Georgia. Men jump from raised wooden platform. Three elephants stand in middle. A man jumps from a springboard and leaps over a group of elephants standing shoulder to shoulder, then lands on a pad on the other side. Men show acrobatics while jumping. Spectators watch them.

Date: 1931, April 23
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026603
Melvin Koontz pours water on lion and play with it in Los Angeles, California.

Animal trainer Melvin Koontz bathes a lion in Los Angeles, California. Melvin pours soap on the lion in cage. He then pours water on it. Lion jumps from stool and plays with Melvin in cage.

Date: 1931, April 23
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026604
Bandleader Aviator Roger Wolf Kahn, makes daring low altitude pickup of mail in Norfolk, Virginia.

Bandleader-Aviator, Roger Wolfe Kahn, son of multimillionaire banker, Otto Kahn, sits in a 1930 Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket airplane. He taxis and takes off, flying from New York to Norfolk Virginia, where he makes a daring low altitude test of system for in-flight pickup of mail. He swoops to within a few yards of the pickup point, and snags a mail satchel suspended atop a building only 102 feet high, The mail pouch is delivered by air drop in a field, where it is picked up by a man who places it in a car and drives away. (Note: This actual airplane, Bellanca NC 7084, is being restored by its owner, Dan Cullman of Kent, Washington.)

Date: 1931, April 21
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026605
The exterior and the buildings of the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York.

The United States Military Academy at West Point in New York. A high altitude view of the academy. Mountains and a river in the foreground. Exterior of the buildings of academy. Trees in the area. U.S. Army Major General William R. Smith and the Commandant of Cadets Lieutenant Colonel Robert C. Richardson discuss amongst themselves.

Date: 1931
Duration: 4 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062450
Candidates arrive at the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York to report for the enrollment.

The United States Military Academy at West Point in New York. A train arrives at West Point railroad station. Candidates comes out of the train and walk towards the military academy. They walk with their luggage. The candidates being allotted rooms in the academy. A cadet arranges his room. An officer instructs the cadet. Cadets stand at attention on the grounds.

Date: 1931
Duration: 4 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062451
Cadets stand in formation and take an oath of allegiance on the academy grounds at West Point in New York.

The United States Military Academy at West Point in New York. U.S. Army Major General William R. Smith welcomes the recruits. Cadets stand in formation on the grounds. They take an oath of allegiance. The cadets march holding rifles in hands. Two of the cadets hold flags. Trees in the background.

Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062452