[20th CENTURY NEWSREELS GARCO THE ROBOT MAN CHIMP CIRCUS ACT WICHITA DYMAXION HOUSE]

00:00 Film 0868: Monkey circus performers. Monkeys are shown in elaborate outfits, performing for delighted kids circa 1930s.
02:15 Film 0876: 1940s London circus animals including giraffes, hippos, trained horses, and of course elephants. Also has images of a big top with a high wire act.
04:31 Film 0875 Sled dog training and care. Sled dogs are bred at a camp in Alaska. Adorable sled dog puppies are shown. The segment concludes with a sled dog race, possibly part of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
6:40 Film 0872 1930s Florida alligator farm. Alligators are shown being fed, and toyed with using balloons. At 8:16, a man wrestles an alligator. At 8:38, a girl attempts to bottle feed a baby alligator.
9:00 Film 0871 Easter Service at the WWII West Coast Memorial at the Presidio in San Francisco, California. At 9:28, an Easter Service at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado, circa 1940s.
9:45 Film 0870 Dog sleds carrying members of an Inuit tribe arrive at a small town in rural Alaska. The group is given supplies. A priest rings a bell, calling the new arrivals to Christian services. The tribe celebrates as the food is distributed and then departs the way they came.
11:18 Film 0887 Buckminster Fuller's Wichita Dymaxion House is shown. This was a prefabricated, experimental home designed by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1946. Built in Wichita, Kansas, it was intended to be a low-cost, mass-produced, and easily transportable house made from surplus World War II materials like aluminum. Though the prototype was never mass-produced, the sole surviving example is now restored and on display at The Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. At 11:58, a gag "underwater house" is shown, with a man and woman swimming in the kitchen, and a a sailor kissing an underwater mermaid.
13:30 Film 0873 Animal friendships. Dogs, cats and birds are shown in various poses, they are apparently all friends. At 14:20, a chimp is shown with a puppy, which it takes on a bike ride. At 14:53, the puppy and chimp share a meal.
15:48 Film 0874: A polar bear is shown in captivity at a zoo. At 17:01, a panda bear is shown
18:04 Film 0877: Variety act or vaudeville type act with a trained dog and two acrobats. At 18:19, dogs are seen being served at a special canine restaurant. At 18:51, performing terriers and other dogs are shown attacking balloons and their handler's rear end.
20:16 Film 0878 A roller skating chimpanzee shows off for the camera circa 1930s. At 20:50, a chimp rides in a pedal car. At 21:17, a chimp takes tickets from a ticket window at a carnival. At 21:36, chimps ride a roller coaster.
22:30 Film 0879 Antique animatronics and automatons are shown, including a moving diorama. At 22:54 an animated ring with music box is shown, robot birds are shown in a mechanical birdcage, an automata of a high wire acrobat. At 22:23, GARCO, a remote-controlled mechanical man is shown, built in 1953 by Harvey Chapman, Jr. Garco was an early, non-programmable humanoid robot built from discarded airplane parts. He was created for publicity, initially for the Garrett Supply Company, and became famous for appearing with Walt Disney on television, most notably in the 1957 Disneyland episode "Mars and Beyond".
24:07 Film 0881 Lions are shown at what might by Gay's Lion Farm. This was a public selective breeding facility and tourist attraction just west of the south-east junction of Peck Road and Valley Boulevard in El Monte, California. It operated from 1925 through 1942, when it was closed due to wartime meat shortages. It never reopened.