Activities of people in New York City. View of World Trade Center Twin Towers in the distance. People walk along Wall Street in Manhattan. Trinity Church visible at end of street. Cars parked in front of buildings and traffic passing by Federal Hall. Pedestrian and automobile traffic on the street. People ice skate at Rockefeller Plaza.
Cars from nine countries displayed at the Sixth Annual Automobile Show in New York. Four hundred and fifty models of cars from United States and eight foreign countries are displayed at the auto show. A model dressed as a British Bobby police officer 'guards' the BMC booth which is showing a BMC-MG convertible. Front view of a Jaguar MK-X saloon. Two men look at a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO. Cut-away view of a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia. A woman sits at the wheel of a Datsun Fair Lady Roadster, model SPL310 convertible. (L designation is for left hand drive) A model sits on the hood of a 1962 Cadillac.
Newsreel clip entitled "Yanks Win Series." Highlights from game 7 of 1952 World Series in which the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers to claim their fourth straight Major League Baseball championship. Clip opens with fans pouring into Dodgers' Ebbets Field and cheering in the stands. Closeup of Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese (#7), who hits single to left in fifth inning, scoring Billy Cox. Closeup of Yankees outfielder Mickey Mantle (also #7). Dodgers pitcher Joe Black throws. Mantle hits home run to put Yankees ahead, runs around bases as fans cheer. Shots of Dodgers' fans looking nervous and also at times cheering in the stands, wearing suits, hats. Dodgers second baseman Jackie Robinson hits popup with bases loaded in seventh inning. Yankees second baseman Billy Martin races in to make shoestring catch. Dodger fan in hat looking disgruntled. Yankees mob relief pitcher Bob Kuzava after he gets the final out in the ninth inning to clinch the series. Yankees manager Casey Stengel celebrates in clubhouse.
A basketball game at Madison Square garden in New York. Thegame is played between N.Y. Knickerbockers and Boston Celtics. Players seen dribbling the ball and shooting the ball through the baskets. N.Y. Knickerbockers win the game.
Huge crowd of communists gathered at Union Square in New York City. The communists and sympathizers carry banners. Some of the banners read: "Long Live the Soviet Union"; and "Food workers defend the Soviet Union"; and "Organize against imperialist war - Join Communist Party"; and "Join International Workers Order"; and "Stop Evictions"; and "Smash Doak's Deportation Plan" (in reference to efforts by Secretary of Labor William N. Doak, through the Bureau of Immigration, to identify illegal alien immigrants and deport them in order to free up jobs for citizens during the Great Depression.) The Police disperse the crowd.
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.)
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