Professional basketball game between San Francisco Warriors and Philadelphia 76's in San Francisco, California. Will Cunningham and Wilt Chamberlain ("The Stilt") including other players. Audience watches.
Tony Curtis gets award of Germany's famous leading Screen Magazine. Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov and Jean Simmons sit on the sets of Universal International's multi million dollar epic 'Spartacus'. They talk and laugh. Charles Laughton kisses Jean's arm. Hollywood star Kirk Douglas stands with an award in the shape of a deer and speaks. He wear a T-shirt with Spartacus printed on it. He present award of most popular foreign star to Tony. Tony gives his speech.
On the one year anniversary of Adolf Hitler rising to power as Chancellor and Fuhrer in Germany, Americans assemble in Madison Square Garden, New York to denounce Adolf Hitler's ascendancy in Germany. People gathered in Madison Square Garden including New York Governor Al Smith, Ray Moley (seen speaking at podium), Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (also seen speaking at podium). Views of dignitaries on platform and of the gathering of 20,000 attendees in Madison Square Garden. Photographers click pictures. People watch and listen. From a March 12, 1959 newsreel featuring events from 25 years earlier.
Bicyclists participate in the annual Six Day Bike race held in New York City's Madison Square Garden arena. Bikers ride on track. A participant gets a shave during a break in the multi-day event. Australian Velodrome champion Reggie McNamara eats food during a break. A biker falls and a man runs towards him. Race in progress. Bikers collide; a fallen biker lays on the side of the track. From a March 12, 1959 newsreel featuring events from 25 years earlier.
Academy Award information in Los Angeles, California. Notice Reads 'Attention all movie fans, see and hear, Motion Picture Industry's Academy Award telecast, Monday night, April 6th. Trophy of Academy Awards in the background.
Mile Run at Compton, California. Audience watching the competition. Six runners stand on start line, including Jim Beatty, Dyrol Burleson, Jim Grelle, Cary Weisiger, and Bob Seaman. Starting gun is fired. Morgan Growth sets the pace. The runners take off running. New Zealand's Peter Snell wins the race. People clap for him. Snell stands and poses on tracks. Pole vaulter and world record holder Brian Sternberg breaks his old record in pole vaulting.
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