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.
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.
U.S. Navy commissioned Women officer nurses stand in formation, dressed in summer white uniforms, as they are inspected by senior officers during World War 2. Closeups of several nurses. Several women nurses, in uniforms of various armed services, pose for the camera. Closeups of some of them. Scene shifts to the first director of the Women's Army Corps (WAC), Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, seen standing in front of an Army recruiting poster, and at her desk in Washington, DC. Women volunteers seen in a recruiting station, applying to join the new WAC. Colonel Hobby walking along sidewalk of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, across the Potomac River, in Washington, DC. She stops and poses for the camera. Next she is seen approaching two army officers on the bridge, who both come to attention and salute as she comes close enough for them to see the Colonel's eagles on her uniform shoulders. She returns their salute, smartly, and continues on her way. Next, four armed WAC members in field garb, stand on the side of a mountain as two of them consult a map and the others use binoculars. Below them, on a dirt path, women of a WAC motorcycle corps unit ride their Harley Davidson motorcycles. They also ford a stream on their motorcycles.
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).
Early history of aviation, aircraft, and flight. Example of a dangerous would-be flying machine ornithopter that was being experimented with during the early 1900s.
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