Start of baseball game in Yankee Stadium. New York Giants rookie star Willie Mays catches fly ball, runs to infield. Yankee great Joe DiMaggio catches fly ball near 461 Ft. sign and center field monuments. DiMaggio fields a single. Interior shot of Yankee Stadium with packed stands. Exterior shots of Yankee Stadium with crowd filing in. Brief shots of several players swinging bats, including Giants' Davey Williams, Yankees' Johnny Hopp, DiMaggio, and Yankees rookie star Mickey Mantle. All film presumably shot during the Yankees-Giants 1951 World Series.
Views of different paintings exemplifying modern art. First painting is 'Girl before a mirror' by Pablo Picasso. Famous paintings of famous painters can be seen, some of them are: 'New York waterfront' by Stuart Davis; 'Around the fish' by Paul Klee and composition in black, white and red. 'Reclining figure' by Henry Moore can also be seen.
Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis and Chilean boxer Arturo Godoy in New York. Views of the two boxers posing for press photographers. Each boxer takes a turn standing on a podium for the media. Joe Louis and Godoy stand together and shake handh. A close up of Joe Louis. A close up of Arturo Godoy and he smiles. Photographers take pictures. Scene changes to after the fight. A man looks into the bruised eyes of the boxer. Godoy, wearing a suit, is seated on a sofa with his wife, Leda Urbinati, and an interviewer. He has a swollen cheek and eye. Godoy talks to the man and his wife, Leda. He comments on the skill of Joe Louis, speaking in English and then in Spanish. He expresses his desire to box with Louis again. His wife, Leda, also speaks briefly in Spanish.
In Belmont Park, Elmont, New York, a large crowd is on hand to watch the running of the Belmont Stakes, the third jewel in Racing's Triple Crown. Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie Eisenhower arrive with other persons. Horses race on track. Former President Eisenhower laughs with a man. Race horse Sherluck wins Belmont Stakes race defeating favorite Carry Back. Long shot Sherluck paid out $132.10 for a two dollar wager -- the biggest payout in the history of the Belmont Stakes.
African American men and women picket the premises protesting against Jim Crow racial segregation practices in the United States Army, at the 59th Street Haaren High School in New York City. Young white woman seen with the civil rights demonstrators passing out handbills protesting the draft.
The B-29, "Dave's Dream," taking off from Roswell Air Base, New Mexico, for the Marshall Islands, to participate in Operations Crossroads. Major Woodrow P. Swancutt, pilot of the B-29 Superfortress bomber, "Dave's Dream," leads his crew as they all don their parachutes and survival gear prior to boarding the aircraft for takeoff. They then enter the aircraft via a crew ladder in the nose wheel well area.
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