Stratosphere balloon 'Explorer' rips 57,000 feet over Earth in Rapid City, South Dakota. The Stratosphere Balloon with a Pressurized Capsule takes off from ground with its three occupants. The Explorer tears in the air and plunges downwards. A family listens about its launch gathered around radio in their living room. Broadcast on radio. 'Army Air Corps' written on the wrecked pressurized Capsule. Wreckage of the balloon. Officials inspect the capsule wreckage.
A baseball game being played at Navin Field, in Detroit, Michigan. Based on the uniforms, the size of the crowd, and the action seen in the clip, this is very likely the second game of a doubleheader played by the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox May 30, 1916, on the holiday then known as Decoration Day (now Memorial Day). Clip opens with shots of one White Sox player, two Tigers players hitting. Camera pans across packed stands. Tigers outfielder and Hall of Famer Ty Cobb (with split grip on bat) reaches out to get a hit. White Sox catcher Ray Schalk removes mask, gets ready for throw. Detroit player tries to score; Schalk receives the ball, applies the tag. Umpire's call is difficult to discern. Action shifts to an overhead view. Three White Sox players score on a hit, the last one sliding past an attempted tag by Detroit catcher Oscar Stanage. Detroit pitcher Harry Coveleski gets final out of the inning. Detroit player reaches first base on infield error. The next batter pokes a ball over first baseman for a single. Other Tigers players hit. The Tigers would win this game 9-8.
United States Military Academy at West Point in New York, United States. Artillery on a mounted area with buildings in background and view out over the Hudson River. United States Army cadets stand in line with rifles in their hands.
Workmen guide a truck carrying the top half of a wood frame house on a narrow path through woods. The truck in a large clearing in the woods. Next the bottom half of the house is seen with cables wrapped around it and a steel girder above. in the next scene, has been moved to the clearing and men stand atop it, while an 80 ton crane slowly raises the upper half and maneuvers it toward the lower half. The Crane belongs to the C.P. Ward Company, a New York State General Contractor Firm. The crane operator and workmen guide the upper half of the house into place.
SS Gripsholm (Ship) arrives in New York, United States in World War II. Cameramen take photos as SS Gripsholm as it arrives at New York harbor. The rails are crowded with Americans. She docks at Pier F in Jersey City and ambulances roll away with wounded soldiers. Six hundred and sixty-two repatriates from German internment camps come ashore. S. Pinckney Tuck, excharge d'affairs in Vichy seen. Douglas MacArthur (General Douglas MacArthur's nephew), approaches with his dog. Passengers are happy to come in home. Ralph Heinzen of the United Press gives an intelligent analysis of internal conditions in Germany today. Stalingrad was the turning point, he states. Germany began losing the war with that defeat and Hitler started losing prestige.
Children holding stuffed animal dolls in New York, United States. A girl kisses her mother on the cheek. A little girl holding a Pluto dog doll. A boy in raincoat takes off his cap. Jane Engel exhibits her exceptional styles for boys and girls in Oval Room of the Ritz-Carlton (46th Street and Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan). A group of brothers, sisters and their mother pose together. Children with toys. Two boys in woolen pants and striped jersey. One of them rides a bicycle. A woman and her daughter walk down the stairs together. A pair of two sisters in matching frocks. A little girl winks at the camera.
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