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American military builds pontoon bridge over Volturno River during World War II
American jeep drives into ruined town / VS men unload heavy metal plate from truck / soldier with metal detector with construction group at river's edge / construction crane places pontoon segment on river / men at river / rope is...
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Tag-team wrestling between 'giants' and little people in Washington, DC
Two large men wrestling / little-person wrestler standing on ropes / large men wrestling / large men wrestling and then two little people enter ring and get involved / referee takes one team to corner / large wrestler on that team places...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1930s building reconstruction somewhere in US
Two shots of two workers laying down boards for flooring / men pulling on rope attached to wall until wall collapses / two shots of man throwing rope over wall and another man securing it / two wide shots of men putting up building /...
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Stage performers put on benefit show in Paris for unemployed actors
Title card: "Paris stage stars frolic for charity, Stylish stouts and comic singer put on open air benefit show to help unemployed French actors" / large man in cowboy outfit sitting on horse blowing bugle / men crawling through barrel...
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USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides," sits among more modern crafts in Boston Harbor
MLS looking up at mast on board the USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") as crewmen wave and begin unfurling topsail / MS bow of Constitution of in left foreground, as US Navy destroyer USS Tarbell passes in background, "142" painted...
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Daredevil J. D. Pate performs in Los Angeles
Title card: "Human fly stands upside down 390 feet above street - J. D. Pate of Los Angeles risks life hanging from glass plate by vacuum-cupped shoes" / Pate explains workings of four suction cups attached to his shoes; he is then...
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Tethered balloon above Jerusalem checkpoint
CLEAN: Exterior shots of a tethered balloon above a Jerusalem security checkpoint, used either for weather or surveillance on October 15, 2015 in Jerusalem, Israel.
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Bob Bartlett's crew makes it to camp with help from Eskimos with dog sleds
Boat coming to snow packed shore of Baffin Bay with waiting Eskimos / explorer Robert Bartlett's crew and Eskimos unload boat / CU gasoline hoister / men carry machine on pallet / men carrying object on pallet / men digging / CU propped...
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House moved across the Delaware River
Title card: "Army ferries house 4 miles across river - US engineers take 240-ton building with them in modern crossing of Delaware" / VS a large house moves from shore as a man washes a window, it turns, and floats away; other men...
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Bill Robinson, Fredi Washington and other stars at opening gala of RKO Roosevelt Theater in Harlem, probably 1937
Title card: "Harlem's Roosevelt Theater" / VS street scenes, rows of 6 and 7 story apartment bldgs, shops on ground floors, awnings over apartment windows, cars parked on street, pedestrians, children playing / swimming pool, black...
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Hog farming in the US
Elevated view of penned hogs / Men opening a gate and hundreds of the animals running through / The feeding pen is crowded with the hogs; they stand on their back legs to get food the worker is doling out / A mother hog with numerous...
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Winter sports in Scotland include curling, skiing, and skijoring
Pan castle, snow on ground, people carrying skis in front, can hear voices and yodeling / ski instructor in front of learners lined up behind him; he tells them to put ski up as he demonstrates; they laugh / side view student skiers with...
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Former New York mayor Jimmy Walker and wife Betty Compton attend the Morris and Essex Dog Show; English Setter is Best in show
Title: "Nation's Greatest Dog Show" superimposed over owners walking dogs by judges and others watching / WS people and dogs cover ground between pavilions / people lead dogs by spectators seated and standing / dogs on blocks in center...
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After their wedding ceremony in Toulouse, tightrope walkers Roger Decugis and Berthy Omankowski receive priest's benediction on tightrope
Title "United on the high wire - 20,000 wedding guests!" superimposed over wide overhead shot of crowd gathered in square outside church where wedding ceremony was performed, pan across crowd to tightrope stretched between poles / people...
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Folsom Dam dedicated
Title superimposed on the Folsom Dam complex, "California - World's Tenth Biggest Dam Dedicated" / Tilt up to a massive concrete rectangular construction with people looking over the edge, speakers, and a radio tower above: "Folsom Dam"...
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Wrestling match on Paris' Montmartre, has wrestling inside and outside ring and fighting with the referee and photographer in October 1952
Title: "Now, It's - Wrestling a la Paree" superimposed on wrestling match / VS wrestling match at Montmartre with wrestlers jumping and kicking each other, flipping in air, and flipping out of the ropes and wrestling outside the ropes,...
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Logger competitions in Vancouver Island
Title superimposed on men rolling a log, "Loggermen's Holiday" / A man in a t-shirt uses a power saw to cut though a thick tree trunk / a shirtless man saws another log / A man's hand holds a stopwatch / Men cutting notches in wood;...
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SS United States ocean liner, which can be converted into a troop ship, is christened in Newport News, Virginia, May 1951
Title card: "America's New Queen of the Sea!" / Title: "Superliner 'United States' Takes to Water" superimposed over ocean liner SS United States / MS starboard side USS United States at dock with large crowd on dock, three people walk...
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On pier in Atlantic City, NJ, acrobats Bob and Laura Top perform roller skating stunts
Card: "Paramount News issue no 95" / title "A wife with faith in her mate" superimposed over Laura Top holding on to Bob Top with her legs as he spins around on skates / Laura holding on to rope being lifted up to platform on tower /...
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Cleaners working on 'Big Ben' clock face at the Houses of Parliament
Cleaners working on 'Big Ben' clock face at the Houses of Parliament
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World War II: soldiers in landing crafts; military vehicles on amphibious assault ships
Boat and landing crafts and maybe supplies on ocean with horizon in distance, can see tops of helmets in fg / landing crafts on ocean, soldiers in one in fg / landing crafts loaded with soldiers, coastline in bg / MS soldiers in moving...
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Ships on ocean during World War II, with guns firing
Smoke billowing through air, can see vertical ropes or cables, maybe flak in sky and gunfire flashes / various shots ships on ocean, smoke, gunfire / looking down on ocean from ship, can see gun barrel in fg, gunfire and smoke / various...
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GIs disembark from SS Henry Ward Beecher prior to its being towed
POV from tugboat alongside SS Henry Ward Beecher as United States Army soldiers climb over the rail and down the rope ladder to the tug / VS soldiers climb over one by one
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Boy Scouts riding horses in rodeo in probably Jayhawk Area Council; scout on bucking steer
Title card: 'Boy Scouts Ride In Midwest Rodeo, Baxter Springs, Kas. - Troop gives stirring horsemanship display in Jayhawk mounted meet' / scouts mounted on ponies and horses moving together, others on horses including American flag...