Chicago White Sox get ready for the baseball season, March 1950. Players warm up throwing arms. Manager Jack Onslow, second from right, confers with coaches. Pitchers Bill Wight and Bob Kuzava chat. Players practice sliding in sliding pit, send sawdust flying. Hall of Fame shortstop Luke Appling (#4) clowns for the camera with an oversize mitt. Pitcher Billy Pierce (#19) throws batting practice. Hall of Fame second baseman Nellie Fox (#26) swings at a pitch. Slugger Gus Zernial (#6) takes a swing. (Note: There is no indication where the film was shot but the White Sox trained that year in Pasadena California.)
Maneuvers of naval cadets in Virginia. United States and Canadian cadets demonstrate joint maneuvers. Helicopters in flight over a sea. Marines aboard a landing craft. They wade ashore. Airplanes in flight over a beach. Paratroopers jump out of the airplanes and descend towards the land. The helicopters in flight overhead.
A basketball game between the Harlem Globetrotters and the House of David in Monticello, New York. An exhibition game for charity. The very large men of the House of David team, most with full beards, stand in a line impatiently watching the Harlem Globetrotters perform trick plays and passes in a warm up. The game in progress. People applaud as the Harlem Globetrotters out maneuver their opponents.
Activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California during World War II. A high altitude view of the area. Buildings in the area. 'Army Air Forces' written outside a building. Enlisted men of the 1st Motion Picture Unit lined up at attention and march. Officers and men work in a production office. The Writing and the Camera Department. Men carry photographic equipment.
Activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California during World War II. A high altitude view of the area. Buildings of the unit sound stages. The stages are sound proof and air conditioned. Buildings along the sides of a street. Cars drive past on the street. A sign outside a building reads: 'Stage 5'. Men work on a training film project. Artists act in the film. Army artists and set designers work in the art department. They work for the conversion of scripts into sketches and models. The model of a squadron department. Men act in a film for the squadron department and discuss about army airplanes and officers.
Hollywood activities as part of the war effort in World War 2: Activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California during World War II. A sign board reads: 'Make Up Section'. Make up experts work in a make up room. They apply make up on the faces of actors to prepare them for crash scenes. An actor acting in a film. The actor seated in the cockpit of an airplane. His face shows scars and injury.
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