A U.S. Army Second Lieutenant narrates his experiences as a West Point cadet in the United States. Cadets run towards a sports field for the athletic program of the West Point Military Academy. The cadets swim in a pool and play badminton. They exercise to improve their physical fitness. The cadets wrestle and box in a ring. Some of the cadets do gymnastics and play golf. The cadets ski over snow. Some of the cadets play a match. The narrator watches the match with a woman and other cadets. They cheer. The cadets play a football match. A large crowd gathers to watch the match. People cheer and applaud.
A woman writes a letter to her mother. The woman writes about the various courses offered at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). Young women at a YWCA swimming pool. Young women swimming in the pool. An African American woman seated at the edge of the pool, instructing the girls. Women learn backstroke swimming. The swimming instructor talks to the girls, demonstrating a swimming stroke.
Dramatized checkin theft . African American man walks behind a hen house with a sack in his hands. Another man from the window drops a chicken into the sack. The two men look around as they steal, then one walks away with the sack containing stolen chickens. The other man jumps out of the window with a chicken in his hands. Two farmers chase the chicken thieves. One farmer carries a scythe and the other a gun, which he shoots. (Edison Studio, 1896)
Family group at beach in Coney Island. Ladies well dressed in fashions of the day, sit on edge of boardwalk protected by beach umbrella and parasols. A very young child also fashionably dressed stands near them under the umbrella. A young man in suit and tie, wearing a straw hat, chats with one of the women. On the sand, several older children in swimming attire, of the period, play with one another. Surf can be seen in the background. (Edison Company, 1898)
A film about youth in the United States producing food for war during World War 2, to aid the war effort. High school students seated in an auditorium. They are briefed by a man. A student talks to a teacher about a summer garden job . Students are taught to operate a tractor. A college girl operates a corn picking machine. A college girl drives a tractor. Tractor trolley loaded with corn. Women take out the corn from the tractor trolley. High school students pick orchard crops from trees in California. The students put the crops in crates.
Sergeant R. L. Bose demonstrates reliability of Air Service parachutes and disproves a theory that a man falling 500 feet or more loses consciousness. Civilians and military spectators watch the demonstration. Views from the airplane as Sergeant Bose free-falls from 3000 feet, delaying his chute opening until 1500 feet. Some of his free fall in slow motion. He makes a routine parachute landing. Spectators and an ambulance come as a precaution to his landing point.
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