Joe Louis wins the world heavyweight boxing championship in Chicago, Illinois. A large crowd and a large number of vehicles are on the road in front of Comiskey Park. Police gathered at the stadium for the bout. Stadium sign : 'Comiskey Park, Home of the White Sox'. Spectators enter into Comiskey Park. View of enthusiastic celebration among a throng of people in Harlem on news that Joe Louis, AKA the Brown Bomber, had defeated James Braddock. Pan view from feet to head of Joseph Louis Barrow (Joe Louis), the heavyweight boxing champion of America, after winning the world championship crown on June 22, 1937 against James J. Braddock (opponent) in round 8 in Chicago. View of James Braddock (nicknamed "Cinderella Man") seated with his family in an interview after he defeated Max Baer for the title, but before the fight with Louis. Braddock asks his son, "Now that Daddy is champ, what do you want him to get for you." His son replies that he'd like a bike. Braddock answers, "A big bicycle" and his son says yes. View of Braddock alone, with a bandage on his left ear. (Audio present at end of clip only during Braddock interview.)
3 firemen killed and 100 people hurt as a gasoline blast wrecks a garage in Montreal, Canada. The damaged garage after the gasoline blast. Firemen spray water with hoses. Men vacate the garage. Men inspect debris outside the damaged garage. Two men carry a wounded man. A man stands in front of a fruit vendor's stall.
Busy life of in Berlin, Germany. Two men with beer mugs in a restaurant. People walk on a road. A man eats in a carriage. A man eats on a road in front of the restaurant. A gas station attendant filling car with fuel. Pigeons eat grains. A man sitting on stairs smokes a pipe. Two elderly women talking. People seated at a desk. A horse carriage on a road. Siegessäule monument in Berlin (Siegessäule, Grosser Stern 1 10785 Berlin). Vehicles and pedestrians on a road. A traffic policeman controls the traffic. Advertisement for German cigarette brand Juno on double decker bus moving along the Unter den Linden boulevard.
A meeting of French officers at Hotel Brenner in Baden-Baden, Germany. A sign on a building. People and vehicles move on the road in front of the building. Views of Hotel Brenner where the officers of the French Commander-in-Chief are. Two soldiers stands guard at entrance of the building. An officer enters the building. French Government in Germany: French officers seated at a conference table. The meeting is presided over by General Marie-Pierre Koenig, French Commander-in-Chief. On his right is Administrator General Emile Laffon, who is in charge of the civilian administration of the French Zone. On his left is his political counselor Jacques Tarbe de Saint -Hardouin. On the left of Saint-Hardouin is Koenig's deputy General Henri Navarre.
British military headquarters in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. Koenig's Hotel (Hotel Königshof , Am Kurpark 5, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany) in Bad Oeynhausen is now the headquarter of the British Army of the Rhine (B.A.O.R.). Vehicles and soldiers move on a road in front of the building. British headquarter hotel entrance. Two military policemen stand guard and salute as British officers enter and leave the building. The Union Jack flag fluttering. The hotel roof with a broken mast holding a crown. The name of the hotel 'Badehotel Konigshof' is over the main entrance.
Training film for U.S. soldiers during occupation of Germany after World War 2, guiding them on their role of "reeducation" and restoring normal life to civilians in Germany after World War II. U.S. soldiers seated and Germans standing around them talking to the solders. A German MG Police officer outside a building. A German police officer monitors citizens in a line. Germans talk to U.S. soldiers outside the Office of Military Government for Bavaria, in Munich. The U.S. soldier reviews their identification papers and questions them. German children at play. A smiling American soldier seated with a group of young German children around him. A group of German boys plays baseball on the lawn in front of the largely destroyed Altes Armeemuseum in Munich (later home to the Bayerische Staatskanzlei or Bavarian State Chancellery) in Greek architectural style with six prominent ionic columns. A U.S. soldier talks to German civilians. Soldiers talking with German men , women and children. A soldier frisks men and women entering a secure area. German police grab and restrain a German citizen for some offense and escort him away. Young children seated and learning at an outdoor class. The children standing and smiling.
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