Ceremony of "Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day" at Yankee Stadium in New York. Trophies and a frame on which "Don't Quit" is written, lying on a table. A large crowd of baseball fans in the stadium. Seventh Regiment Band marches during the ceremony. Dignitaries and members of the 1927 Yankees World Championship team attend the ceremony. An official of the New York Yankee team makes an announcement on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day. Lou stands in front of a microphones. Cameramen take photos. Other team members stand in the background. Joe McCarthy makes a presentation. George Herman Ruth, Jr. (Babe Ruth) talks to an official. Babe Ruth, dignitaries and other members stand and pose.
Clip opens with view of some of the 40,000+ fans who crowded Yankee Stadium in New York for "Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day" on July 4, 1939. The Yankees played two baseball games against the Washington Senators that day. Distant footage from left field shows Senators retiring Yankees and running off the field. Yankees run onto the field. In game two, Yankees second baseman Joe Gordon hits a long single that drives in three Yankee runs. Gehrig seen taking framed petition headlined "Don't Quit." Flag reading "1927 Champions" raised on flagpole. Members of that great Yankee team, including Babe Ruth (in white suit) and current Yankee coach Earle Combs (in Yankee uniform) walk up to home plate for the ceremony. Players, executives, dignitaries, photographers gathered at home plate. Gehrig listens to speech, head down. (The only sound bite in this clip is heard here as the announcer says: "In a case like yours, all league and glove lines are obliterated..." ) Next, in footage from game two, Yankees get hits off Washington pitcher Alex Carrasquel. Fans stand up to watch the action. Senators won the first game 3-2; Yankees took the second game, 11-1. (Note: Gehrig, the fabled "Iron Horse" of the Yankees, had to retire that year because of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis aka ALS, often called "Lou Gehrig's disease," which would kill him within two years.)
Mrs Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Mr Henry Ford, Mrs Ford and Mr Edsel Ford pose in front of a plane and then Mrs Lindbergh enters the plane and leaves. A plane in the hangar with several people standing near it. A man poses near the plane. Several people talk to each other. Mr Edsel Ford, Mrs Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Mr Henry Ford and Mrs Ford pose in front of the plane. Mrs Lindbergh (wife of Charles Lindbergh) enters the plane. She looks out of the plane door. The plane taxis out of the hangar and takes off. The plane in flight. A photographer takes pictures of the plane.
A Ford Tri-Motor in flight with Mrs Lindbergh, wife of Charles Lindbergh, aboard. A man stands on a runway and looks as a Ford Tri-Motor also known as 'The Tin Goose' tries to land. The man moves away as the plane comes towards the runway. The plane comes to a standstill and the man moves towards the plane. The engines stop one at a time. Engines run. Plane taxies and takes off. Plane in flight. Mrs Anne Morrow Lindbergh and some gentlemen near a plane. Mrs Lindbergh gets into the plane followed by the gentlemen. Engines run and the plane takes off. Plane in flight. Aerial view of plane over a field.
A Ford Tri-Motor on pontoons tested on the Detroit River, United States. A Ford Tri-Motor on pontoons on water. It taxis on water and then takes off. The plane flies over water and then lands.
Various models of Ford cars -- Phaeton, Tudor Sedan, Roadster, Coupe, Business Coupe, Sport Coupe and Fordor Sedan driven one by one on a circular driveway in front of a building in the United States.