Movies: Robert L. Ripley

Traveling to North Africa, Ripley offers views of The Meeting Place of the Dead in Morocco, a jail for nagging wives, a village with houses made of tin cans, and a sultan with many wives and children....

Reporters interview Ripley about his world travels. Vitaphone No. 1053....

Ripley shows a chair of growing trees, the narrowest street in the world, a city of wine cask dwellers and a bungalow of 144 rooms....

Ripley shows unusual athletic feats, a boy born with "clock" eyes, and a blind French monk who invented navigation laws....

Robert L. Ripley first shows the very first cartoon of his, published in newspapers 8 years earlier. He then proceeds with various oddities, first introducing a woman who can read aloud 8 words a second. He demonstrates this by giving her a 200-word ...