ewsreel clip on the Atlanta Braves bringing major league baseball to the South. View of the downtown Atlanta skyline in 1966, followed by view of Atlanta Stadium. Thousands of people line the streets to welcome the Braves in a pre-game parade that proceeds South along Peachtree Street towards Five Corners, in the heart of the city. View of road sign at Peachtree and Houston streets. Banners reading "Welcome Braves." One car carries coach Ken Silvestri, Ken Johnson (#30), and Hank Fischer (#34). Closeup of them waving to the crowd. An intrepid boy watching from atop a traffic light. Boys and girls standing in front of adults on the sidewalk. One small boy sits on the sidewalk curb. The Players ride in wide 1960s-style open convertible cars and wave to the crowd. Other players seen include #19 Dennis Menke, #43 Rico Carty, and #35 Phil Niekro. Views inside Atlanta Stadium, filled with 50,000 spectators for the first game. Tony Cloninger delivers a pitch for the Braves, who would go onto to lose this game and the next.
Christening of Lufthansa Airlines Junkers G38b airplane , registry number D-2500, by German Reich Minister of Aviation, Hermann Goering. He gives a speech during the ceremony. The G38 aircraft in the background. People stand around the aircraft. Other German Cabinet Ministers stand in a group. Goering officially names the airplane: "Generalfeldmarshall von Hindenburg" which is already painted on the plane. He smashes a bottle of champagne across the nose of the airplane, .
A World War II documentary titled ' Yankee Noodle' depicts improvised devices and techniques used by U.S. troops to save time. Aircraft parked in a line at an aircraft industry. A man operates washing machine. Men at work on a granite launcher. A man operates a grappling wire used to trip mine. A man holds a cable binder used to put a line. Men on an elephant and put a wire. A man uses oxygen tank and a copper tube being coiled inside an oil drum for making a still for distill water. The water comes out from the tank and used for the battery. Men put the water in the battery. A U.S. aircraft lands. A man works on a gadget that takes only 20 minutes to change the tire of an aircraft. A tire loaded in a trolley and being pulled by a jeep. Three men load tire. Men hold a winch designed to tighten nuts and bolts. Mobile service and repair unit mounted on a truck. Instrument panel mounted behind the driver seat. Men at work on 110 volt generator. A work light, electric grill. A parachute used as an emergency brake for an airplane.
America's first satellite, the Explorer I. It is seen on the launch pad atop the Redstone Juno I rocket that will carry it into orbit on January 31, 1958. The rocket engine fires and the Juno I speeds upward. Next an American Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile is seen being launched 0n 18 December 1958, to steer itself into orbit as a satellite, orbiting the Earth.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is seen on the balcony of the Alþingi (Parliament House) in Reykjavik, Iceland on August 17, 1941, when he visited during voyage home from the Atlantic Conference in Newfoundland, in World War 2. To his left are Icelandic Prime Minister Hermann Jonasson and Regent Sveinn Björnsson. Churchill appears to make brief remarks to a group of civilian Icelanders assembled in the plaza below. The crowd is passive. Some take photographs. (Iceland is under British occupation at this time.)
Aerial camera. A trolley loaded with an aerial camera pulls up near a plane and flight crew along with Lieutenant O S Reading lifts the cover off the camera. Camera loaded into the aircraft. An aerial picture taken from the camera covering 600 square miles at 25,000 feet.
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