Mountain handicrafts in North Carolina. A man makes a clay vase. He gives it a proper shape with his hands. A vase is kept on a table to dry. Different shapes and designs of vase and kettle on display. Boys carve wooden animals with jackknife. Farmer's handcrafts on sale at Rockefeller Center in New York. A man looks at a handmade vase. Display of all the items. A woman looks at cloth and at wooden animals. The handicrafts at home. A man reads a magazine.
An American Overseas Airlines aircraft leaves the United States from New York. It is on a multi-leg journey carrying 45 former War Correspondents back to Europe for celebrations commemorating the 5th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion of World War II. Former war correspondents board the aircraft. Aircraft in flight over a cloud cover. Officials get off the aircraft. A man refuels the aircraft. Officials again board the aircraft. Aircraft in flight over a cloud cover. Double decker buses on the streets of London. The former war correspondents talk and smile on the streets of London.
Loading packed date boxes on native boat for transportation to steamer and further to New York. One progressive exporting company experiments in adaptation of Arab labor to modern machinery and factory procedures in Basrah, Iraq. View of the Tigris River near Baghdad.
Newsreel clip on 17-year-old Ed Cereghino accepting a $50,000 bonus to sign a contract with the New York Yankees organization in 1951. View of Cereghino signing the contract with Yankee scout Joe Devine (in suit) and Cereghino's parents watching. Cereghino tosses a baseball with his father over a fence with barbed wire. Announcer notes Cereghino will be joining the Yankees' minor-league club in San Francisco, the Seals, managed by former National League batting champion Lefty O'Doul, seen at right. Cereghino pitches his first game for the Seals with his parents in the stands. He loses, but gets a kiss from his mother afterward. (Note: Cereghino would pitch eight years in the minor leagues but never make to the Yankees or any other major league club.)
The United States Navy's Akron, the world's largest dirigible flies over Washington DC, United States. View of Washington Monument beneath. Akron in flight with the fluttering American flag and the dome of U.S. Capitol in view. Views of the Akron over New York City. Chef inside the airship prepares food. Officers look at the buildings below, through the dirigible glass.
Arthur Woods, former New York Police Commissioner raises his hat and smiles in Washington DC, during his role as chairman of President Herbert Hoover's Committee on Employment. Scenes of construction projects underway providing work during the Great Depression: A huge construction site with work in progress building many high rise buildings. A large dam being built. A large crane moving material to a bridge from ground. Workers engaged in welding work. Sparks at the welding site. A large crane moving iron. Workers building giant ships in shipyards. Workers walk on docks beside a ship under construction in a shipyard.
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