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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220477-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1945,1940s
Country: USA
Location: Palisades, New Jersey Amusement Park
TC Begins: 19:06:19
TC Ends: 19:07:25
Duration: 00:01:06
WWII - 1945, USA Homefront Entertainment: Motorcycles & Lion At Amusement Park Intertitle: Motor Daredevils Put On Thrilling Merry-Go-Round. 19:06:26 Motorcyclists Don Thompson & wife Dottie onto motorcycles begin circling inside large wooden drum in Palisades, New Jersey amusement park show. Circling nearly horizontal due to centrifugal force. Spectators watching over side from top. 19:06:53 MCU Lion in cage; MLS lion trainer / handler Ethel Purtle lets him into drum & into miniature car as lion tamer scratches him, then drives around. 1940s; WW2; Trained Animals; Oddities; Stunts; Gags;