By 1904, these simplest of actualities, showing ordinary people doing ordinary things were of limited interest to anyone. So why did they continue to make them? More specifically, why was this thirty-second clip of young men mounting and dismounting the parallel bars and young women swinging from a ladder made? I suspect that the actualities units of the film companies were going through the movements at this point. Movies were in a bit of a slump as story films began to be of importance. But more, I suspect these were intended for the local audience, to perhaps encourage parents to send their children to school right here in Missouri where they could get a good physical education.
Whatever its intent, it's still pretty poor.