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Claire Manley wins a clown show at the Madison Square Garden in New York.

An amateur clowns' show at the Madison Square Garden in New York. Mrs. Claire Manley, a female clown contestant, pulls out a hen from a pot. A group of clowns perform their act. A father and sons clown group pull out a small, featherless chicken from a huge pot. A little clown emerges from the pot. Judges watch the acts and give their decision. The judges, which includes Coco the Clown (Michael Poliakoff, son of the famous Nikolai Poliakoff who shares the same moniker), announce Claire Manley as the winner. Coco the Clown congratulates Clair Manley.

Date: 1967, April 18
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073298
African American men seated in a garden eat watermelon. They end up laughing and cutting up

The film titled 'Watermelon Contest' depicts men eating watermelon in the United States. Four African American men seated in a garden. They eat watermelon. Trees in the background. At first they seem serious. But they gradually turn the event into a comical farce.

Date: 1900
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073468
People gather in a large number to watch the 24th Annual La Jolla Rough Water Swim in La Jolla, California.

The 24th Annual La Jolla Rough Water Swim in La Jolla, California. People gather to watch the contest. The swimmers jump into the water and swim in the surf. The winners Dave Radcliff and Judy Primrose share a kiss as they pose with trophies.

Date: 1955, September 1
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076489
Mopping up operations at end of battle for Okinawa in World War II. Numerous Japanese prisoners of war impounded.

Opening scene shows tents housing more than 1500 Japanese prisoners of war at Kadena, Okinawa during World War 2. The area is surrounded by fencing and, as camera pans, it shows an American soldier overlooking the prison camp as he holds a Browning M1919A6 light machine gun. Another view of the prison compound with warning sign against admittance and another sign reading: "PW inclosure." As narrator refers to "mopping up operations" a jeep carrying more Japanese POWs drives past the signs. Ambulatory Japanese POW entering the prison compound past armed military policeman. View from inside the compound as Japanese POWs enter. A POW being frisked by a U.S. soldier. Closeups of some Japanese prisoners standing behind barbed wire enclosure. American soldier makes notes as he interviews a prisoner. POWs receiving haircuts under a tent in the stockade. Others washing and shaving at an outdoor trough of water. Some seen playing a board game at a tent. POWs in a wrestling contest, surrounded by others watching. Prisoners offloading supplies from a truck and stacking them in their compound. POWs cooking food in large kettles and distributing it to other prisoners. Various views of prisoners in the compound. U.S. medics attending to a wounded POW, administering blood plasma. Numerous Japanese prisoners loosely assembled outdoors. Next, on June 22, 1945, U.S. troops are assembled for a flag raising ceremony. The U.S. flag is raised on a tall flagpole to mark the securing of Okinawa. An unidentified U.S. Army Lieutenant General leads the ceremony, saluting as the colors are raised. (Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Commander, 10th Army that took Okinawa, was killed 4 days earlier, on June 18, 1945.)

Date: 1945, June 22
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052943
Bolshevik Leaders harangue public in Russia. Mikhail kalinin gives speech and mingles with crowd

Animated map shows shrinking area of Tsarist Russian control as Bolshevik influence from Russian Revolution moves across Russia, leaving central region around Moscow still politically contested. Russian troops run through a snowy rail yard, next to a flat car on which an automobile sits. Bolsheviks board another flat car. Mikhail Kalinin speaks forcefully to a crowd, and later, with a cigarette in his mouth, mingles with young people in the crowd. People receiving Bolshevik newspapers at a train depot. Newsmen conversing. Another speaker delivering an impassioned speech.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054351
Boris Karlof and Bela Lugosi, noted screen stars, judge dark complexioned cats of people in Universal City, California.

A contest for cats at Universal City, California. Children and women come with their felines. Boris Karlof and Bela Lugosi, noted Hollywood movie screen stars, judge the dark complexioned cats. Three winner cats on table. Cats see each other and close-up shot as one of them hisses in anger at the other cats.

Date: 1934, March 19
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055212