Views from a moving railroad train, of a raging river. The train travels along a track at the edge of the river and passes by a station platform with stairs descending towards the river bank.
A film titled 'The Mysterious Cafe'. A man and a woman enter the cafe wearing hats. They are seated on a table. A waiter serves them. The woman folds her umbrella. The couple finds themselves flying about the room from chairs to table and vice versa. The table shifts from its position and disappears. The couple is seen puzzled by the situation.
A film titled 'Hooligan assists the Magician'. Mr. Hooligan volunteers his services for the magic show. A couple of barrels seen which when knocked, regains their balance. Clowns as well as ghosts appear and disappear from the barrel, to bother Mr. Hooligan, the volunteer. He captures them and they turn in to white muslin. The magician reappears and turns the muslin into bits of paper and a goblin.
A football game between Blue Devils of Duke and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. The players seen on field. The game ends in a tie as both teams score 14 points each. Crowds cheer the players. The crowds mix with the players on the ground as the game ends.
African American early jazz musician playing drums. Drummer in band seen hitting cymbal of a drum set with a drum stick. Drums are also seen. A member of the orchestra seen in the background playing another instrument.
View of a U.S. Post Office building. Patrons line up inside, to use the new "V-mail" system for sending mail to service personnel overseas, during World War 2. They are seen writing letters on special forms that also serve as envelopes, when folded. Senders stamp, and mail them, just like ordinary letters. Next, after being opened and passed by military censors, the letters are fed into machines and photograpned onto rolls of microfilm. Views of microfilm in 100 foot rolls, that carry 1500 letters, each. View of a strip of microfilm with individual letters on it. Bags of mail on the floor of an Army postal facility and a soldier holding one small bag of microfilm letters that contains the same number of letters as all the other bags. Servicemen overseas reading their letters (that have been blown up and printed at normal size).
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