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- The story of a Beaumont race horse, told through from the point of view of the horse via intertitles.
- Original Documentary of the horse Seabiscuit, made in 1939 by the horse's owner Charles Howard.
- Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
- A documentary on the preparations for and running of the famed horserace between Sir Barton and Man O' War in 1920.
- This short looks back three decades to celebrate the "Naughty Twenties". Newsreel and movie clips with voiceover narration review the era's national and international politics, fashion, popular entertainment, sports and engineering feats.
- A film showing how race horses are trained.
- This Traveltalks entry goes to Kentucky for visits to some historical monuments to white settlers and a look at the state's long tradition of horse breeding.
- Newsreel featuring a montage of early 20th century sport champions.
- With the 1948 Olympics Games about to begin, RKO-Pathe (the shorts department at RKO)tossed this one out as part of their "This Is America" series (RKO production number 83-110.) It presents sports as the American Way of Life and goes back to sport's Golden Age of the 1920s to look at who was doing what back then. Man O' War was winning a lot of horse races, Johnny Weissmuller a lot of swimming races, and 'The Galloping Ghost,", Harold 'Red' Grange, was crossing the goal-line with a football several lengths ahead of the always-slow players from Michigan and Ohio State.