GAUMONT GRAPHIC 157 (fragment) [Main]


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  • Anno: 1912
  • Durata: 2 mins
  • Descrizione: A group of ostriches assembles with their trainers at a racetrack. One of the birds is fitted with a trotting harness, and then races "one mile in 2 minutes 10 seconds". It is taken out of the harness after the race.The lifeboat crew demonstrates that the rowing boat can be capsized and, using a special recovery drill, righted almost at once. They row up the river with the wharfs of New York behind them. A final portrait shot of their coxswain.
    I. Newsreel item on ostrich racing in San Francisco, summer 1912.II. Newsreel item on lifeboatmen testing an "unsinkable" lifeboat on the Hudson River, New York, summer 1912.
  • Parole chiave: EFG1914 / World War I / United States Life Boat Service / recreation, United States civilian - sport: ostrich race / animals, birds: ostrich / ships, United States civilian - assistance: lifeboat / San Francisco, California, United States of America / New York, New York, United States of America / Hudson River, United States of America
  • Fonte esterna: Imperial War Museums
  • Diritti: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Casa di produzione: Gaumont
  • Colori: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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