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A giant coal shovel, 85 feet high, during its trial operation, in Duquoin, Illinois, United States.

A giant coal shovel during its trial, in Duquoin, Illinois, United States. A giant coal shovel, 85 feet high, being operated on a field during its trial. The men gather around and watch. Men standing on the base part of the equipment. Men standing on the sides.

Location: Duquoin Illinois USA
Date: 1929, November 13
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054946
Philadelphia Athletics vs. Chicago Cubs in game one of the 1929 Baseball World Series

1929 baseball newsreel, entitled, "Athletics and Cubs Clash in World's Series." Long-distance aerial shot of Wrigley Field, Chicago. A's starter Howard Ehmke warms up (with submarine motion) before the game. Title card notes he struck out 13 Cubs. A's manager Connie Mack and Cubs manager Joe McCarthy (both Hall of Famers) shake hands before game. Title card says 51,000 spectators in attendance. A's first baseman and Hall of Fame slugger Jimmie Foxx seen rounding third, touching home after hitting home run to give A's 1-0 lead. A's outfielder Bing Miller singles to score Mickey Cochrane. Fans exit ballpark across the field after A's win. Shots of packed Wrigley Field stands. Camera pans across part of ballpark during game; note absence of famous ivy on Wrigley Field outfield walls..

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1929, October 8
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041239
Harold Holmes emerges the annual champion in the corn husking contest in Galesburg, Illinois.

Harold Holmes wins the annual championship in corn husking contest in Galesburg, Illinois. A large crowd gather including the farmers to watch the annual corn husking contest in Galesburg. The corn husking contest begins. The contestants start removing the husks from corn. Men stand around and watch. Harold Holmes husking corn. Harold Holmes picks 37 bushels in 80 minutes. Harold Holmes emerges the annual champion in the corn husking contest. Harold Holmes smiles.

Location: Galesburg Illinois USA
Date: 1929, November 13
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054943
Telephone switchboard operator at a rail station, handling several phones, and directing a train engineer in Chicago, Illinois.

The switchboard control room at a rail station in Chicago, Illinois. A telephone switchboard operator wearing headphones at the controls in a control room at a rail station. The girl speaks on the phone. An engine driver in an underground tunnel of the train system talks on an early telephone to the switchboard operator. The train passes through a tunnel. The switchboard operator in the control room handling several telephone calls at a time. An open rail car emerges out of the tunnel.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1929, November 23
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054954
"Skyskating": Men, women and children ice skate on roof of thirty-five story hotel building in Chicago,Illinois

Ice skating on roof of a thirty-five story building in Chicago,Illinois. Hotel manager opens a skating rink on the roof of the building. Group of men, women and children skate on roof top. Other buildings surrounding the skating rink-topped hotel.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1929, December 28
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063701
The U.S. Army Air Service Fokker C-2A named "Question Mark" being refueled in midair from a Douglas C-1, in 1929.

Mid air refueling experiments in January, 1929. A U.S. Army Air Service Douglas C-1 tanker plane, with hose trailing below it, flies above a modified Atlantic-Fokker C-2A named "Question Mark." The hose is let down to the Question Mark, where a crew member seizes it and makes a connection for fuel transfer. After transfer of fuel is complete, the crew member throws the fuel line off and it is retrieved by the tanker plane. The Question Mark lands at Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys, California on January 7, 1929, and taxiis in to park. The crew members, including Major Carl A. Spaatz, Captain Ira C. Eaker, Lieutenant Harry A. Halverson, Lieutenant Elwood R.(Pete) Quesada, and Staff Sergeant Roy W. Hooe, all exit the airplane and gather under the wing with well wishers. The five crew members pose for photographs beside their airplane, the "Question Mark." Ground crew tows the aircraft with a tractor.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051736
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