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Venezuelan baseball pitcher Alex Carrasquel plays in New York, 1939

This Spanish language newsreel clip highlights Alex Carrasquel -- the first baseball player from Venezuela to play in the U.S. major leagues. He played in New York on July 4, 1939, the day before Venezuela's Independence Day. Title cards read: "Especially for Venezuela. The great pitcher Alejandro Carrasquel plays in New York on the eve of the Venezuelan patriotic day." Shot of Simon Bolivar statue in New York's Central Park with 'Simon Bolivar El Libertador' written under it. Huge crowd at Yankee Stadium in New York to watch July 4 doubleheader between New York Yankees and Carrasquel's team, the Washington Senators. (NOTE: This crowd was mainly there to see the Yankees honor Lou Gehrig, their Hall of Fame first baseman, who had just been diagnosed with ALS.) Carrasquel (#14) pitches to Yankees in second game, gives up run-scoring triple, tags out another runner trying to reach first base. Carrasquel speaks to crowd through microphones in ceremony at home plate. Shot of Venezuelan flag on pole outside a building (Venezuelan embassy?). Men and women gathered at a cafeteria. Sign in large white letters reads 'Venezuela.'

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1939, July 4
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675064538
The 75th wedding Anniversary of Heer and Vrow Reeffer celebrated with 161 descendants in Holland.

Heer and Vrow Reeffer celebrate their 75th wedding Anniversary in Holland. 161 direct descendants, 60 grandchildren, and ninety five great grand children and six children take part in the Diamond Anniversary. Heer and Vrow Reeffer seated in a car that is towed by their descendants. The couple kiss each other.

Location: Holland Netherlands
Date: 1956, July 16
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064633
Tourists watch an ongoing parade and Brockton school children dancing during their visit in Brockton, Massachusetts.

Tourists visit Brockton, Massachusetts. Entertainment planned by the Granges of Massachusetts. Brockton school children dance on an open ground. An ongoing Grange parade led by a band. Decorative floats typify the seven founders of the order and other great events. People in costumes on the floats. 2400 people gathered at a banquet.

Location: Brockton Massachusetts USA
Date: 1924
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064801
Children watch a marionette puppet show in Buffalo, New York under the Works Progress Administration project.

The WPA (Works Progress Administration) project in New York, United States. Children present a marionette show in Buffalo, New York during the Great Depression. Children lying in a bed watch the show. One of the boys in a bed holds a doll in hand.

Location: Buffalo New York USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064811
Cadets marching and view of a mess hall at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.

The United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Cadets march outside the building. A wall in a dining hall decorated with paintings depicting battles and great military Figures.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064812
New Recreation facilities at Palisades Interstate Park in New York and new club house at Bethpage State Park

Works Progress Administration (WPA) building projects during the New Deal effort of the Great Depression: Palisades Interstate Park along the Hudson River in Fort Lee, New Jersey. A group of teenage boys hiking in the park. Groups gathered at a picnic area. Boys and girls playing outside of a new bath house building beside the park beach. View of the Perkins Memorial Tower built in honor of the former chairman of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, and a wide view of the Palisades Interstate Park Administration Building still under construction. Scene changes to Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale New York, as 1930's cars drive in front of a newly built club house to discharge passengers. A uniformed door man stands by. Women golfers and men golfers play on the new 18 hole golf course in the park which requires no membership.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064813
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