Rose Bowl college football game between Tulane (Green Wave) and the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans. Game in progress. Crowd watches. Trojans over Tulane in a 21-12 defeat. In the final quarter Don Zimmerman drops a pass into Jerry Dalrymple's hands for a score and follows it closely with another touchdown over a similar route.
"Rush gigantic job on housing project for 2000 Olympic Athletes" shows workers erecting houses in Rolling Valley for 1932 Olympics participants from 50 nations, to take place in Los Angeles, California. View of many new dwellings that have been built in the Olympic village. An official along with several athletes visits the newly constructed housing area.
Otto Gradenigo works on Marine models of tall sailing ships and other vessels in Oakland, California. He is in a rush to complete the ship and marine models for the 1932 Chicago World's Fair. Miniature reproductions of various vessels can be seen, with Mr Gradenigo working on the scale models.
The Sacramento Valley covered with flood waters. Evansville in Indiana and Henderson in Kentucky are invaded by high water as ice melts in the river. Chunks of ice in rivers. People stand on the beaches at higher area.
Approximately 20 contestants, dressed in white, are seen at horseshoe pitching lanes in a fenced enclosure. Spectators are seated in bleachers nearby. A stray dog wanders in the foreground. View of the spectators (mostly men). View of a shoe landing as a ringer. View from the pins as a contestant throws five shoes at four pins. One shoe appears to have landed closed against the first pin. The remaining four are all ringers. In a complete change of scene, Ted Allen, wearing a sweater emblazoned with his name and title: "World's Champion," gives a demonstration. He throws four ringers at one pin, while an intrepid assistant leans over, with his hand atop the pin, confident that he won't be hit by one of the horseshoes. Final view is a closeup of Ted Allen posing with his face framed by a horseshoe. (Note: Ted Allen was born in Kansas. His family moved to Colorado in 1922; to Oregon in 1932; to California in 1933; and finally back to Colorado, in 1936.)
Miss Smaranda Braescu poses near an airplane. She enters the plane and is shown wearing an oxygen mask along with the pilot. The plane takes off from the airfield. Miss Braescu makes a jump from the plane at an altitude of 24,000 feet. She opens her parachute and successfully lands on the airfield. Two officials help her unfasten the parachute harness and shake her hand.
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