Cinetopicalities In Brief No. 36 (1938)

Titles read: “CINETOPICALITIES IN BRIEF“. Various locations of events. At Port Marghera near Venice, Italy, we see various shots of men working at a gas works / oil refinery where an easily combustible and cheap liquid gas is produced. A woman in a tent uses gas from a cylinder to light a lamp and a stove. In Durban, South Africa, we see men in gas masks and protective overalls spraying gas in a street to fight an insect plague. In the Bavarian Alps in Germany we see people at a ski-school skiing down a slope of dry straw and leaping over a small jump. It looks like good fun. Somewhere in the United States of America we see various shots of the Viking, the famous Midwest American train with a billiards table on board. ’Fancy-shot champion’ Charles Peterson does some trick billiards shots. Also in the United States we see 12-year-old writer Dave Statler in a cowboy outfit, reading a passage from the western thriller he wrote and illustrated himself called ’Roaring Guns’. He tells us his n