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Two young men riding small motorboats narrowly escape drowning when their boats capsize during a boat race in Long Beach, California.

Boat race for small one-person motorboats underway in Long Beach, California. Large crowd on shore. Two boys riding speedboats narrowly escape drowning when their boats capsize.

Date: 1939, August 2
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055165
U.S. Marine Corps recruits attend classes at a Marine Corps base in San Diego, California.

A film titled 'Soldiers of the sea' about the training of United States Marines. Aerial view of a Marine Corps base in San Diego, California. A car enters through a gate. A poster reads 'US Marines'. A Marine talks to men near the poster. A sign outside an office reads 'Recruiting officer'. A recruit takes an oath. He gets a haircut. Uniform being issued to the recruit. A Marine blows a bugle. Recruits get up and put on their clothes. The recruits in a classroom. They are taught about various parts of a ship with the help of a model of a ship. A sign reads 'Never say you to an officer' as recruits learn military etiquettes. They learn to prepare a casemate hammock.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057717
U.S. Marine Corps recruits learn about drill and usage of fixed bayonet in San Diego, California.

A film about training of United States Marines in San Diego, California. Recruits learn the details of squad formation as they perform a drill. They receive bayonet instructions. Two men demonstrate the use of bayonets during a hand to hand combat. The recruits row a whaleboat across a river.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057718
U.S. Marine Corps recruits learn to fire rifles and machine gun at a firing range in San Diego, California.

A film about training of United States Marines in San Diego, California. Recruits learn to fire rifles at a firing range. The recruits lying in prone position fire rifles at targets. A man lying on the ground as he holds a target. The recruits fire machine guns at the target. They fire machine guns at a forward moving target.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057719
Training U.S. Marine Corps recruits to fly Gruman F3F aircraft in San Diego, California.

A film about training of United States Marines in San Diego, California. Gruman F3F aircraft lined up on a field. Technicians turn propellers of the aircraft. A crew members fuels an aircraft. Recruit pilots lined up on the field. A pilot gets into cockpit of an aircraft. Aircraft in formation flight over an open sea off San Diego. An F3F aircraft parked on the flight deck of a capital ship. Marines march and line up on the deck of a capital ship.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057720
Dutch Smith and Bill Lewin during an underwater wrestling bout at Mirador Hotel in Palm Spring, California.

Underwater wrestling at Mirador Hotel in Palm Spring , California. Olympic champions Dutch Smith and Bill Lewin wrestle on a springboard and jump into a pool. They continue to wrestle underwater. The two wrestlers come out of the pool. One of them lying by the poolside as another one keeps his feet on the chest of the first one and poses after winning the tie.

Date: 1939, January 23
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059010