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.
Former American war correspondents in Paris, France to mark the 25th anniversary of Allied invasion of Europe in World War II. A helicopter lifts off. A newly delivered Boeing 747 aircraft at Le Bourget Airport. Correspondents stand under an umbrella near the aircraft. They examine the exterior and interior of the new 747. Civilians stand behind barricades. The first Concorde prototype, Concorde F-WTSS, also on display for the crowds. Correspondents seated in a Pan Am lounge at the airport.
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.)
Dancers at a beach resort in Venice, California show new types of jazz and swing dances. Young dancers dance the Yam, the Shag, and Lindy Hop swing dances on the beach. Onlookers clap.
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