In this entry to the documentary short series, a $5000 contest is revealed for fans. Robert Ripley presents to a well-dressed cocktail party an assortment of drawings and film clips: a 17-year-old grandmother in Africa, a French woman who left her fortune to buy clothing for snowmen she believed to be dressed immodestly, one of the largest books in the world (a huge Bible), a giant Boston tea pot steaming since 1873, two 119-year-olds in Missouri meeting for the first time before the cameras, truffle-hunting pigs in France, and Fritz the German Shepherd dog who walks on the high wire.
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If you have ten minutes to kill and a high tolerance for 1930s-style showmanship, sure, give this a look. It is for people who enjoy Before the Circus-style oddities or just want to see how humans used to entertain themselves before the internet ruined everything. If you prefer a cohesive narrative, skip it. Ripley is...
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Alfred J. Goulding
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"If you have ten minutes to kill and a high tolerance for 1930s-style showmanship, sure, give this a look. It is for people who enjoy Before the Circus-style oddities or just want to see how humans used to entertain themselves before the internet ruined everything. If you prefer a cohesive narrative, skip it. Ripley is standing in front of a bunch of people in tuxedos at a cocktail party, which feels slightly surreal. He is just rattling off these facts like he is holding a grudge against realit..."
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