Players of different teams play bowling during National Bowling Congress in Rochester, New York. Players bowl balls on lane to down the pins.
New York Yankees players run onto the field at spring training for 1956 baseball season. Yankee manager Casey Stengel follows. Shots of Yankee pitchers Tommy Byrne and Mickey McDermott warming up. Catcher Yogi Berra catches a ball. Outfielder Hank Bauer takes swings in batting cage. First baseman Joe Collins scoops up a grounder. Shortstop Phil Rizzuto smiles. Gil McDougald and Mickey Mantle swing in batting cage. (Note: '56 Yankees would win the American League pennant, then win the World Series over the Brooklyn Dodgers four games to three. )
Brooklyn Dodgers get ready for 1956 baseball season at spring training camp in Vero Beach Florida. Players seen stretching, throwing on field. Announcer, talking in stereotypical "Brooklynese," notes that manager Walter Alston (in closeup) isn't worried about the season even though 1955 World Series star Johnny Podres (#45) may get drafted. Announcer notes Alston concentrates on Brooklyn players seen hitting in batting cage: #4 Duke Snider, #39 Roy Campanella, #6 Carl Furillo, #14 Gil Hodges and #2 Randy Jackson. Final closeup of Alston.
Opening scene shows injured soldiers in World War 1 being transferred to a field hospital. Next scene, in the United States, shows disabled and injured veterans of World War 1, and recovering soldier veterans, as they exit railroad hospital trains at a train station, and are met by medical staff of Fort Sheridan, in Lake County, Illinois. Women offer the soldiers donuts from baskets. Veterans get into waiting ambulances. Civil war cannon in a snowy field, and view of Fort Sheridan grounds, including the Fort Sheridan water tower and barracks complex. Disabled veterans get out of ambulance and enter hospital facility at Lake Sheridan. Nurses caring for injured patients in hospital ward. A patient in a bed draws a picture. Nurses massage patient's hands and arms. Therapists and nurses using various therapy machines for patients, including one that appears to connect wires to a patient's arm.
World War 1 soldiers recover and receive therapy at U.S. Army hospital facility of Fort Sheridan, in Lake County, Illinois. Recovering soldiers exercise, and are helped to exercise by therapists and other patients. Patient has limb prosthesis fitted by worker. Patient tries on a prosthetic artificial leg. One-legged patient on crutches, sits on bench. Injured soldier with artificial leg walks using cane.
Injured and disabled World War 1 U.S. Army soldiers are seen in a "curative workshop" at Fort Sheridan, in Lake County, Illinois, soon after the end of World War 1. Patients perform occupational therapy tasks which require the use of injured limbs. Patients are seen in a wood working shop, caning chairs, weaving baskets, and taking a course in commercial art. Patients work on paintings while lying in bed.
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