Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Cameramen filming water-skiing demonstration end up in water with their movie cameras
Title: "West assignment! Cameramen Dunked at Water Ski Meet" superimposed over water skier / VS male and female skiers skiing and doing acrobatic jumps / high angle skier skiing on chair perched on upside down table / boat with cameramen...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Father-and-son team doing stunts on tightrope at Garmisch-Partenkirchen ski resort on Mount Zugspitze in Alps in Germany
Title "German Alps - 7th generation of wire acrobats" superimposed over aerial shot of mountain gorge / father Alfredo Traber climbing on motorcycle on tightrope, son Henry on trapeze attached to tightrope below him / Alfredo driving...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
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 /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
The artists of Zugspitze who fled East Germany put on a high-wire act in Miami, FL
Title: "Wired For Thrills" superimposed over acrobats on wire / WS acrobat walking on wire, ocean, streets / WS acrobat doing handstand on pole, tilt down to street / MS Heinz Krause, Hi-wire acrobat, getting ready to put on blindfold /...
Sky News
Remote controlled cars at Monster Truck rally
Remote controlled cars at Monster Truck rally
Sky News
Gatwick: Iran Earthquake Aid Plane loaded with Emergency supplies
Gatwick: Iran Earthquake Aid Plane loaded with Emergency supplies
Sky News
Gatwick: Iran Earthquake Aid Plane loaded with Emergency supplies
Gatwick: Iran Earthquake Aid Plane loaded with Emergency supplies
Sky News
Gatwick: Iran Earthquake Aid Plane loaded with Emergency supplies
Gatwick: Iran Earthquake Aid Plane loaded with Emergency supplies
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Man jumps shack in car
MS men run up and pat man on back who is about to get into automobile, crowd in bkgd / car rolls down ramp that curls up at ramp's end, jumps over shack, crashes when it lands, people watch from stands, roller coaster in bkgd of ramp...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Parachute stunts in the USSR and the US in 1933
WS parachutists jump from Soviet airplanes during record parachute jump in Moscow / POV from plane of parachutists jumping out, falling toward earth / WS parachutists in sky, with chutes open / closer view // [US, date unknown] daredevil...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Cleveland air show with crash and parachute escape, 1932
Biplanes flying formation / glider doing turns / autogiro doing stunts / boy toddler yelling / parachutist jumps from plane / parachutist landing / pilots, Al Wilson and John Miller, challenging each other / plane and autogiro in air...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Daredevil J. D. Pate dangles from wing of plane
Title card: "Flirts with Death! Daredevil J. D. Pate drops from plane to top of speeding auto" / man with camera hangs from car to film biplane in air with Pate hanging off wing / plane bounces up and down and Pates touches top of car...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Stuntman performing on planes in flight in US
Shot of plane in flight from another plane, stuntman starting to climb up on wing of other plane / shot from plane of two other planes in flight behind it / shot from plane of man standing on wing of another plane / shot from plane of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Steep hill climb in dirt bike competition
Title cards: "Roughest Riders! Daredevils thrown headlong from seats in steep hill climb" / aerials of dirt bike competition / man going uphill loses motorcycle / another contestant gets part way up and loses motorcycle / next 3 riders...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Trick golf shots by golfer Joe Kirkwood at Miami-Biltmore Club in Coral Gables, FL
Title card: "Golf suits him to a tee! Joe Kirkwood of Miami-Biltmore Club tries some new trick shots" / Kirkwood standing with clubs surrounded by group of women and talking to one of them / Kirkwood pulls out one club and talks to women...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Germany's Major Ernst Udet performs flying stunts at International Air Race in Glenview, Illinois
LS three planes fly loop the loop at International Air Races / MLS crowd / VS planes perform stunts intercut with crowd cutaways / LS Major Ernst Udet glides his plane in for landing as crowd applauds / Note: exact day not known
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
British pilot Amy Johnson Mollison speaks at air show
Planes taking off from airfield / spectators sitting in stands / planes in flight, buildings on ground below / spectators looking up / planes in flight stunting / spectators / plane rolling toward camera after landing; man running up to...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Couple weds in walkathon as a stunt
Bride and groom Jean Andrews and Nick Winrick stand with attendants, all wearing Colonial costumes with white wigs, for ceremony conducted by Theodore Darnell / MS bride & groom embrace and kiss / audience / clownish man in tuxedo &...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Daredevil Ben Mouton performs on trapeze over Royal Gorge in Colorado
WS Royal Gorge Bridge over Royal Gorge and landscape beyond, people gathered on bridge / pan down rock face to railroad tracks and telephone poles beside Arkansas River / people looking over bridge railing at daredevil Ben Mouton...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1934 stunt-driving Plymouths
A car approaches an incline built with wood planks, and it drives by at an angle / A car speeds past in heavy dust; a line of men at a stands at a railing / A car comes down an incline and flips over / Note: exact day not known
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
West Berlin policemen put on annual show in Olympic Stadium in Berlin
Card: "Paramount News issue no 7" / title "West Berlin's 'finest' put on show" superimposed over policemen marching in formation on playing field / pan across playing field and crowd in stands / overhead shot of policemen marching in...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Daredevil Bill Outten sets himself on fire and dives into flaming pool at Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey
Title "Fire-to fire - Human torch dives into blazing tank" superimposed over Bill Outten, who is on fire, diving off tower into flaming pool / Outten holding his daughter standing next to his wife posing for photo opportunity, tilt up...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Sword and apple vaudeville act
Title card, "Swordsman Cuts Eve's Apple" / A woman is seated by a man in a futuristic costume, he lays her head back; his partner, holding a sword, is throwing an apple up and down and then hands the items to his partner; he throws the...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Coronas Family of Czechoslovakia performs high wire act at Palisades Park in New Jersey
Title: "Higher for thrills!" superimposed over shot of Coronas aerialists performing on high wire above Palisades Park amusement park / shot from level of high wire of one aerialist tumbling over two aerialists sitting on wire and...