[20th CENTURY NEWSREELS CAPTURING ZOO ANIMALS STEEL PIER DIVING HORSE ZOO VETERINARIANS]

These short newsreels were created by Off Network Productions, a New York company created by producer and media magnate Gerald Bartell, using an archive compiled by Merton Koplin. The company distributed these films to TV stations around the United States, where they were used as fillers, and to present historical events and personalities to the public. Bartell referred to the films as a "visual encyclopedia".

00:00 Film 0822: Lions Demolish Auto. Likely shot at Gay's Lion Farm in Los Angeles. Gay's Lion Farm was a tourist attraction in El Monte, California. It operated from 1925 through 1942, when it was closed due to wartime meat shortages
1:44 Film 0828 Town for sale. Gus Barbush, who purchased town of Langeloth, Penn. Shakes hands with townspeople in his store in Langeloth. Gus polishes his car and takes a drive through his town, where he once was employed as a dishwasher. Gus pointing out sights, Gus with children from his town. The town of Millican Oregon, consisting of a Post Office and General Store, is for sale. Sign: Town for sale. People shopping in the general store which if owned and operated by Billy Rahn who is also the town postmaster and fire chief.
2:56 Film 0830: Wild West Stables Hoss Strode. A cow is outfitted with a saddle and a woman goes for a ride as if it was a horse. At 3:34, a traditional hula dance. The hula dancer gets into the water with a trained seal and swims with the seal.
4:25 Film 0832 Ski jumps circa 1940s including long distance, Olympic style jumps
6:07 Film 0833: Kangaroo vs Human Boxer. Now considered a cruel sport, boxing kangaroos vs humans was started in the 1800s as part of travelling shows. Also shown, a tamer wrestling a lion, and a man wrestling an anaconda in an underwater tank (the snake does not appear to be real).
7:54 Film 0835: Daredevils stunts 1930s including the famous diving horse at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. The diving horse is an attraction that was popular in North America in the mid-1880s,in which a horse would dive into a pool of water, sometimes from as high as 60 feet. A horse-diving show was an in-residence act held at New Jersey's Steel Pier. Pressure from animal-rights activists and declining demand led to the act being shuttered in the 1970s.
Film 0837: Performance by Baudy's Circus, with trained dogs, a trained chimp and greyhounds. Shows famous animal trainer Robert Baudy, whose act included boxer dogs that acted like lions. He also worked with other circus acts and was involved in breeding tigers.
12:10 Film 0839: Zoo doctors circa 1950s. Shows zoo veterinarians and New York Zoological Society animal ambulance. A vet is shown bandaging a chimpanzee, feeding a baby lion, cleaning the teeth of various animals, etc.
14:15 Film 0849: Australian Animals at the zoo including emus, snakes, porcupines, and more. At 15:44, a man plays music on a flute, attracting birds. At 15:47, the WWII treehouse built by George Witters, who was working in a shipyard in Houston, Texas, is shown. Witters was known as the "Texas Shipyard Tarzan".
16:58 Film 0848: Kids Golf Rodeo Skiing. Kids are shown participating in a variety of sports, including golf, rodeo, and skiing.
18:50 Film 0846: Capturing Animals For Zoo. Shows an autogyro and a car being used to capture and move alligators and kangaroos for the zoo. Seals are captured using nets and boats.
20:54 Film 0841: Baby Animals at Zoo including baby caymans, baby fox, baby armadillos, chimps, giraffes and more.
23:20 Film 0842: Redwood Forest including images of a car driving through an old growth redwood called the Wawona Tunnel Tree, and images of the Yosemite Valley.