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Film clip presents baseball trivia question, 1945

World War 2 era newsreel clip notes that each of the two major leagues in baseball have more than 260 men in the armed forces serving in the war. View of NY Giants pitcher Bill Voiselle (#17), Boston Braves pitcher Al Javery (#18) and others who continued playing during the war. Announcer poses trivia question -- who is the all-time National League leader in home runs, walks, runs, and three other categories? Viewers given five choices to consider while clock ticks. The answer? Not Ty Cobb -- it's the New York Giants' player-manager Mel Ott, seen hitting with his distinctive kick swing and running to first base.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025697
Soldiers form a large liberty bell for a photograph during World War I

The "Human Liberty Bell" composed from 25,000 Officers and men at Fort Dix, New Jersey during World War 1, by photographers Arthur Mole and John Thomas who took them from an 80 foot tower with a large format camera. The U.S. Government contracted Mole and Thomas to create a number of such photographs as a morale booster during world war 1. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Location: Fort Dix New Jersey USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026309
Crew of the USS Leviathan practices emergency drill with U.S. troops, during World War I

Sailors aboard the USS Leviathan (formerly the Vaterland) in New York harbor, during World War 1, when she was serving as a troop ship. They are seen practicing emergency drills, including lowering lifeboats over the side and actually rowing them away. They also launch rubber rafts over the rails. U.S. Army soldiers from a lower deck, then descend to the rafts, using the lines from above. They are seen steping into the water-filled rafts and from there, into the lifeboats. Closeup of one soldier swimming in full uniform, with aid of floatation gear. He also relaxes in the water, suspended entirely by his life vest. View from above of a lifeboat crewed by sailors and filled with soldiers in uniform. They row away, pulling a raft, from which they help a few more soldiers into the lifeboat. Sailors row the filled lifeboats away from the ship, each towing a raft behind them. (WWI. WW1)

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 5 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027341
USS Tennessee battleship (BB-43) during its shakedown cruise

Scenes from shakedown cruise of USS Tennessee battleship (BB-43), soon after its June 1920 commissioning in New York. Smoke from the battleship stack and US Navy sailors on the ship.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027601
Mountains, plains and canyons in the Southwestern region of the United States.

Scenes of the South Western region of the United States. A map shows Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Scenic sweeping wide views of Mountains, plains and canyons in the United States in lofty mountainous area. View of the Grand Canyon. Tourists visit ruins. Ruins of Aztec dwellings in the Chaco Canyon area. The Pueblos at Santa Fe. Native American Indian Navaho Indians weave rugs. Indian Men and cowboys on wheel carts and horses in a dry area. Women sow seeds in the farm. Cattle grazing and Sheep graze in a field. A copper mine.

Location: Santa Fe New Mexico USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028173
Nikita Khrushchev, King Hussein of Jordan and Jawaharlal Nehru speak at the General Assembly in the United Nations.

A United Nations General Assembly meeting. Nikita Khrushchev addresses men and repeats his demands for the admission of Red China. He threatens the United Nations by talking about the drastic reorganization of the UN. He also talks about the removal of Dag Hammarskjold as Secretary-General. King Hussein of Jordan comes next and addresses men. He speaks as the head of a small nation that has experienced imperialism. He denounces Red attempts to wreck the United Nations. He terms the new Soviet imperialism the most brutal the world has known. India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru speaks in this regard. He defends the present structure of the world organization and makes a characteristically eloquent plea for peace. The Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold speaks in his own defense. He receives a standing ovation from the General Assembly.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1960, October 3
Duration: 6 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028579
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