You asked for it -- excerpts

Pallet #9^Box #90003^Viewers write to YOU ASKED FOR IT, announcer answers their questions; shows footage. This reel is compilation of some of the best questions/answers, put together by someone who (Jeff says) worked on the show.^^Topics: (numbers refer to order on reel)^^NATURE/ANIMALS^1) Tiger fights with crocodile^3) Unusual-looking monkeys in Borneo (big ol' noses)^4) Log jam on river blown up^7) Snake charmer charms, kisses and hypnotizes giant cobra^13) In Japan, fishing with imu bird. Amazing shots, particularly because just 40 years later, fishing's completely industrialized. Shots of junks, flocks of imus "fishing", fishermen in peasant dress, fishing at night by light of giant torch. ^14) Tarantulas displayed and explained by naturalist. [Keyword: Spider]^^TV/MOVIE/ENTERTAINMENT^2) Lawrence Welk's bubble machine^11) Beginning of US motion pictures: footage from early 1900's shown, from paper print collection at copyright office [Keywords: Archival films. Silents. Boxing. Motion Picture Academy.]^Fred Ott's sneeze^Anna Held (1904)^1st Submarine^Biograph film (1903) w/trick photography^Heavyweight championship, July 4 1907. Ocean View, California^Squires vs. Burns^12) Madame Toussaud's Wax Museum, London. Notables, in wax, and how they're made. Queen Elizabeth, Roosevelt, Lincoln, Eisenhower, etc.^^MILITARY/AVIATION^5) World War I tanks in action^8) Early attempts at flight -- neat stock footage shots of unflyable machines by early inventors. Lots of propellers, wings; cartoon-like designs. [Keyword: Biplanes.] ^10) Military shows off latest invention -- the flying platform. Bonus: Shots of how useful it could be duck-hunting. Also a one-man helicopter, called a rotorcycle. [Keyword: Futurism. One-man flight.]^^STUNTS^6) Man jumps into water tank from great height while riding bike.^15) Vaudeville act with clowns and donkey.^^PSYCHIC SECRETS DEBUNKED^9) Almost dead guy shows how "psychics" fool their victims--shows how floating objects, table levitating and slate writing tricks done.