Titled 'Pittsburgh Pirates Getting Into Shape at Training Camp.' Hall of Fame baseball shortstop and Pirates coach Honus Wagner plays around with a movie camera. Reverse film special effect with players. Close up of Pirates manager and Hall of Fame second baseman Frankie Frisch. Players running, doing calisthenics with mountains as backdrop. Shots of batters and pitchers warming up, including brief shots of 1940 National League batting champion Debs Garms (#18) and famous 'eephus ball' pitcher Rip Sewell (#30).
Circus family training at home. A woman walks on a low tight rope followed by a girl who is helped by her parents on the tightrope. Man rides a bicycle on tightrope as a child sits on his shoulders. Man climbs a ladder and walks from one end of a high tightrope to the other. He stands upside down on his head while walking on the rope. He also rides a bicycle over the tightrope as he holds a balance pole in his hands.
A United States WWII era training film about cryptographic messaging. Many tanks seen driving on a field as a fighter plane drops a smoke screen in front of them. Radio towers. Teletype operator typing. The words "Message Center" overlaid on view of War Department building. Speeding motorcycle on road at night. Major Doyle hands paper to soldier at his desk and says, "rush these priority messages by radio." Doyle instructs officers as he leads them into a secure gated officer and points to safes on wall next to men working together as a cryptographic team. He notes that, "we must assume that every message we send out...may be intercepted by a potential enemy." View of a spy listening on a radio at night. Doyle continues, saying, "the enemy is quick to take advantage of our mistakes...." Doyle describes the difference between secret, confidential, and restricted government information.
A film titled ' No hobby horses for Italian kids under new law' shows Fascist Youth Organization training boys and girls of tender age in horse riding in Rome,Italy. Boys and girls being taught to ride and control horses so as to prepare efficient members for cavalry. Kids make their horses jump over obstacles.
A film titled 'Coast Guard SPARS' urges women to join women's component of United States Coast Guard to relieve men for active duty in the sea. SPARS trained, work in laboratories and store rooms. They manage aviation operations and also work as radio technicians.
An old bearded Russian Cossack stands in the midst of a contingent of Soviet cavalry, seated on the ground, during World War 2. Closeups of some in his audience. Next, the old man is seen riding at the head of a troop of cavalry. They pass close to the camera, and then are seen from above, as they proceed along a dirt path. Marshal of the Soviet Union, Semyon Audyonny, is seen consulting with other officers. (Narrator states he is involved in training home guard cavalry.) Cavalry mounting up and heading out, past a fence where several rural people wave to them. A troop of Cossacks in Papaha (black Cossack hats) is put through their paces by their commander. He directs one of his troop to charge on horseback, brandishing his sword. The Cossack charges through a series of wooden stakes, swinging his sword at each as he passes. Closeup of one cut clean through. Final scene shows the entire troop charging in formation
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