Circus clowns learn leaping in Marietta, Georgia. Men jump from raised wooden platform. Three elephants stand in middle. A man jumps from a springboard and leaps over a group of elephants standing shoulder to shoulder, then lands on a pad on the other side. Men show acrobatics while jumping. Spectators watch them.
An upright civil war cannon barrel tops the civil war Monument memorial to General McPherson, on Monument Avenue in SE Atlanta, close to the site where he died in the battle. Some of the surviving United States Civil War veterans of the Battle of Atlanta pose on the veranda of the Confederate Soldiers Home. View of the grounds around the home showing two civil war field pieces. Entrance to the Marietta National Cemetery (where 10,132 Union Soldiers are buried). View of the many white grave stones in the cemetery. A replica of the cottage of Poet, Bobby Burns. The replica cottage is home to the Burns Club.
Toledo Naval Armory, training center for naval services in Toledo Ohio. The Armory building constructed with salvage material and federal funds through the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression. 'OHIO' can be seen carved on the top center of the building. Marines and Navy reserve sailors lined up for inspection by senior officers. A naval officer provides gunnery instructions to Marines and Navy reservists.
The disappearance of American aviatrix Amelia Earhart in 1937. A smiling Amelia Earhart stands with a man, possibly Fred Noonan. Earhart and crew loading up an airplane parked in a hanger. May 20, 1937, Lockheed Model 10-E Electra taking off from Oakland, California bound for Miami, Florida on the first leg of Earhart's second attempt at an around-the-world flight. Earhart and her navigator disappear during the flight and are last heard from on July 2, 1937. A huge air sea search is undertaken to find them. An aircraft carrier underway at sea. Airplane parked on the flight deck. Bi-Planes fly in formation during search.
Workers return to work at steel mills in Youngstown, Ohio. A group of steel mill workers reads a newspaper with a headline about the reopening of the steel mills after a strike. The workers return to work. They walk and enter the steel mills. National Guardsmen loaded in a truck as they protect the workers returning to work. The workers lined up on a bridge.
Newsreel shows glass bricks or glass blocks used to build big plant marking new era in building material. Shows employees and workers at American Education Press with walls and partitions made of glass blocks in Columbus,Ohio. Printing press machinery turns out paper with glass walls in the background. View of newspaper printing machines at work.
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