The National Ski Jump Championships in Steamboat Springs Colorado. Women on skis parade. A band on skis. Spectators watch as the competitors begin the jumps on the nation's steepest slopes. A blizzard on the second day makes it difficult for the jumpers. Various competitors fall from the slopes during unsuccessful jump attempts. Art Tokle from Chicago becomes America's champion jumper with a leap of 295 feet.
Boy Scout Jamboree get-together in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. Views of boy scout jamboree with tents at Colorado Springs. Flags of different nations are raised. Boy Scouts from all over the world assemble for the BSA's 5th National jamboree and 50th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America scouting movement. Giant cake for the ceremony. Boy Scouts get patches from a box. Sign: 'Choccolocco Council, Troop 53'. Boys erect the tents. Views of Colorado Springs surrounding mountains with various flags. Mountains in the background.
The activities around the Mississippi River in the United States. Mules with slip shovels used to construct the levee embankment. Mules plow a field. Men work on the farm field. View of the plow. Men picking cotton from field. Smoke comes out of the smoke stack of a steamboat. A steamboat named "Assiniboine" in the river. Men load the steamboat with sacks. View of a bell. Men roll the sacks of cotton into the steamboat. View of Steamboat "Tennessee Belle" being loaded also. Steamboats in the Mississippi river. People aboard the steamboats, including the Chris Greene, the Tennessee Belle, and the Ouachita, which later became the Greene Lines's barge Stogie White.
Scenes of flooding in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as heavy rains bring a flood crest from Monument Creek, destroying much of the town of Colorado Springs on Memorial Day 1935. Damaged bridge section floating by. Man jumps from roof of house into flood waters. People walk holding rope. People float by atop debris, swept along by swift current. Vehicles swept by floods.
Traffic on roads of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado during the early 1960s. Point of view from a moving car of roads, shops, stores, people and many other vintage 1950s and 1960s cars in town. People shopping, commuting, and going about normal daily business in town of Colorado Springs. Views of typical fashions, automobiles, and buildings alongside road.
Western Army troops boarding biggest motor bus in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Troops boarding biggest motor bus. Soldiers see from windows of the bus. Bus goes away. (World War II period).
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