Blanket-Tossing A New Recruit, 1st Ohio Volunteers (1898 Original Black & White Film)

Check out this hilarious black and white film from 1898, featuring Company F, 1st Ohio Volunteers, as they initiate a new recruit! Watch as the new man gets tossed in a blanket not once, not twice, but a whopping nineteen times! Each toss gets funnier than the last. Don't miss this classic moment in military history!

Source :
Paley, W. D., Thomas A. Edison, I. & Paper Print Collection. (1898) Blanket-Tossing a New Recruit. United States: Edison Manufacturing Co. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/98501030