Spectators puzzled by a modern art display in Spain. The spectators watch a rotating modern art painting. A man rotates a frame and places it on a wall. Another man takes off his spectacles and looks at the display of modern art paintings. A woman touches and spins an art piece. A sculpture placed on a table. Two men look at a painting and it seems to disappear when seen from different angles.
A circus show in England. Clowns, animals and performers walk through an arena and start the show. Elephants stand on a stool. A chimpanzee rides a bicycle. Spectators applaud. A boy laughing. Women spin on ropes hanging from a ceiling. A bear wearing a dress rides a bicycle. A clown entertains children with his acts. Children in the stands laughing and smiling happily. Three different high wire tightrope acts including a man jumping rope while crossing the tightrope, a man walking on a tight rope holding an umbrella, and two women forming a human wheel barrow crossing the high wire tightrope.
Lifestyle of people in France. A man looks at an 18th century engraving of women at a party. Women dressed up in "New Look" evening gowns open a box and take out a liquor bottle. A woman shaking a cocktail shaker. They fill their glasses and drink. Table appointments including cutlery and crockery are set. Three women chatting.Women light candles on a stand. A woman shows her jewels.
An ice hockey match in New York. A large crowd of spectators gathered. The ice hockey match between the New York Rangers and the Black Hawks begins. The spectators cheer for the players. The New York Rangers win the match against the Black Hawks.
Film on Sesquicentennial of Washington DC, released in 1950. Film segments created for presentation by Treasury Department at meeting on April 25, 1929. A portrait of the first President of the United States George Washington. Animated maps of the original 13 colonies and the 10 square mile Federal District of Columbia. View of the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal. George Washington's landmark plantation home, Mount Vernon. Christ Church in Alexandria. Old houses on a street and a hill in Georgetown. Sketch of Suter's Tavern. Animated map shows the L'Enfant development plan and the location of principal buildings. The first section of the U.S. Capitol built on Jenkins Hill. The U.S. Capitol building designed by William Thornton and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Sketch of the White House designed by James Hoban. Sketch of Capitol Building in 1827 with dome constructed by Charles Bullfinch.
Sesquicentennial of Washington, DC. 1929 photograph of cars parked in front of the original State and Navy Department buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue, built in the year 1800. View of the Octagon House used temporarily by President James Madison in the year 1812 and now headquarters of the American Institute of Architects. The White House completed in the year 1829.