Two girls fight with pillow. Pillow is torn into pieces. Four girls in their night dresses engaged in the pillow fight. Feathers fly over their heads and about the room. (Edison Studio, 1897)
An old man in a straw hat sits on a chair. A younger woman wearing apron and large hat stands awkwardly beside him. They both talk to each other and laugh. The old man gets up and walks toward the woman and stands beside her. They get ready to kiss each other. The old man's hat slips off as the couple kisses comically with numerous short pecks . (Edison Studio, 1897)
Young people engage in a husking bee. Three women sit near a stable, putting corn into baskets. A girl and man join them, the man pushing a wheel barrel with the girl aboard. As the group husks the corn, a young man finds the "red ear" entitling him to kiss a girl, which he does. She protests and hits him with a corn cob. (Edison Studio, 1898)
A man in a gorilla costume attacks another man in bed in the United States. A man sleeping in his bed. Another man in a gorilla costume pulls bed-sheet cover of the sleeping man. The man wakes up and looks around the room and under the bed. The costume man attacks from behind and gets under the bed. The man jumps out of his bed as he sees the man in gorilla costume. The man in gorilla costume attacks the man. They both fight with each other. The man tries to subdue the costume man. (Edison Studio, 1898)
At start, film shows Dr. Leo Szilard (inventor of the cyclotron) standing in front of a cyclotron in the Pepin Physics Laboratory of Columbia University. He is studying some documented research results. Dr. George Pegram, Chairman of Columbia's Physics Department, enters and converses with Szilard. They review the research data together. Pegram leaves, and Szilard continues to review data. He holds a stop watch and enters some numbers in his journal. Dr. Pegram returns and they again look at the data. Closeup of the two reviewing data and conversing. Repeat of Szilard with stop watch, entering data. Closeups of Szilard speaking to Pegram (unseen). Closeup of Dr. Pegram, talking about the research results. (These repeated scenes are obviously retakes.) Closeup of Szilard's hand starting a stopwatch. Horizontal line and brief vertical lines also displayed on an oscilloscope.
Experimenters place rocket plane (named Gloria), intended to carry postal mail, on a launch ramp. The rocket is ignited and the rocket aircraft rises but quickly falls to the frozen surface of the lake. It scoots along the ice.
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