Athletes walk along a rope at a height of 75 feet in New Jersey. Men walk along the rope with long poles. Crowd watches the show as one man is blindfolded to walk along the rope. In France, a former trapeze artist walks on his hands and covers six miles a day.
Large house with long sloped shingled roof and traces of snow. A man enters through gate, greeted by another. Third man arrives on bicycle. Inside house, row of beds with men lying on two of them. They proceed to prepare opium for smoking and then share an opium pipe. Pictures of Western women on wall.
Pedestrians near fountains in lake at the Chapultepec Park in Mexico. Canoes in the lake. Chapultepec Castle caps the summit of Grasshopper Hills. People stand on long verandah. Thatched hut near water. A man poling boat.
View of large crowd dispersing after a large outdoor event in a stadium setting in which many individual wooden chairs are arranged for the spectators. One woman is a particular focus of attention. She approaches the camera through the thinning crowd and steps up on a raised platform of some kind, while the cinematographer records. She then steps down and to the side. Women wear long dresses and elegant hats. Many women carry parasols.Two men wear large white kerchiefs, under their straw hats, that drape down their necks, for protection from the sun. They walk past the camera and look back.
A film titled ' Departure of Peary [and the] Roosevelt from New York '. A large steamship docked at pier in background. The schooner "Roosevelt" docked at a pier. Seemingly wealthy men in straw hats and women in long dresses and elaborate hats, consistent with late gilded age, board ship. Polar explorer Robert Peary seen on the gangway. Several other vessels seen in the river.
General Eisenhower inspects porcelain exhibits at an export show in Munich, Germany, not long after the end of World War 2. Several porcelain tea sets and vases seen arranged on tables covered with a table cloth. General Eisenhower inspects a motor bike at exhibition. He answers questions of news men. General Eisenhower and General Joseph T. McNarney leave in open cars. Sign reading 'Export Schau' in German and 'Export Exhibition' in English.
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