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Daring Steeplejacks Fix America's Ailing Towers
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keywords: steeplejack, pinnacle tower repair
Synopsis: George A. McNeill veteran of three wars is a master Steeplejack who scales to the tip of a pinnacle tower in Brooklyn NY to determine its condition and makes on-the-spot repairs with an amazing and daring acrobatic display...(read more)
- Date: 1931
- Duration: 00:00:50
- Sound: No
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Daring Steeplejacks Fix America's Ailing Towers
George A. NcNeill, veteran of three wars, former Army flier, and a human fly for 36 years, scales to the tip of the 325-foot peak in Brooklyn, NY to determine its condition. Finding it in need of repairs, he makes the necessary corrections and eliminates the danger. McNeill, now well over 50 and a skilled steeplejack, climbs into the city’s pinnacles (towers) every day with the same daring displayed when he was a youth.- Related Titles:
- Newsreels: 1931 - August 10
