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Men put on home made water boiler diving helmets and enter ocean water in Venice, California.

Home-made deep sea scuba diving suits in Venice Beach, California. Men don hot water boiler diving helmets and get into water. Women stand on beach and pump bicycle syle air pumps to provide air through long black tubes extending to the divers. Divers come out of the ocean water carrying a "treasure" box from bottom of the ocean floor. Woman comes out of the treasure box as they open it.

Date: 1935, February 18
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043334
Lion named King Tuffy swings on flying trapeze in Venice, California.

Four year old lion on swing in Venice, California. Lion named King Tuffy sways on an old fashioned rope swing under the directions of his trainer Harry D. "Bob" Matthews. (This is one of the MGM lions and also the first lion to walk a wire.) The lion in his cage swings on flying trapeze. trainer stands besides the lion.

Date: 1935, September 4
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043352
A group of women enjoy the sport of glissading at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington.

Women enjoy the sport of glissading in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington. A group of girls climbs cliffs. Snow capped mountains in the background. Women enjoy the sport of glissading in which they slide down steep slopes of snow.

Date: 1938, July 11
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047826
German zeppelin Hindenburg lands at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey and people flock to watch it.

German zeppelin Hindenburg lands at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey on the morning of 9 May 1936, after the airship's maiden voyage across the North Atlantic Ocean. People gather to watch the zeppelin after a successful transatlantic flight in 60 hours. The zeppelin enters a waiting hangar as a huge crowd gathers to watch. A Nazi swastika on the airship. Dr. Hugo Eckener thanks American government for their cooperation and talks about the successful flight across the North Atlantic. (This is the only portion of the clip that includes audio). People look at the zeppelin in the hangar.

Date: 1936, May 9
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051385
Dr. Hugo Eckener testifies before the board inquiring into the Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey.

Inquiry board probes into the reasons for the burning of German zeppelin Hindenburg at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Head of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, Dr. Hugo Eckener, smokes a cigar during a meeting of the inquiry board into the airship disaster. He testifies before the board.

Date: 1937, May 17
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051416
'Aquazanies' entertain with comedy diving acts at an Aquashow in Flushing, Long Island.

'Aquazanies' entertain with comedy diving acts at an Aquashow in Flushing, Long Island. A diver takes position on a diving board at the pool. He executes a forward somersault dive. 'Aquazanies', a troop of men who perform comedy and diving acts. Aquazanies dressed in funny costumes rush onto the diving boards, and jump into the water. They dance outside the pool. Several stunt jumps of the aqua zanies are seen, as they jump from spring and platform boards, including stunts where the divers jump together, intersect during jumps, and belly flop into the pool.

Date: 1949, September 2
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020791