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'Polar Bears' Defy Chills In Frigid Lake
DN-LB-515 Beta SP
B W
Newsreel
1934
Stunts - Cold - Ice Water; Club - Polar Bear - Swimming - Winter; Snow - Shoveling - Posing - 1934;
01:39:15:00 - 01:39:48:00 B W 1934 12 31 'Polar Bears' Defy Chills In Frigid Lake IL, Chicago - Lake Michigan Men and women in bathing suit wade through ice, cut hole through into water. Shovel snow. Pile ice on top of each others and sit in water. Pose for camera.
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