Decommission ceremony aboard USS Midway CVB-41 in San Francisco. View of stage with chairs and rostrum. Officers W B Mack, Fredrick Kivette, Roy M Isaan, Allen M Shinn, Captain Eugene J Carroll, Norbert Frankenberger, Leo B McCuddin, Captain Leroy E Harris and Captain E Jacobsen. Officers give invocation. Officers and guests rise for presentation of colors. Officers salute during honors.
Baseball players and movie stars mingle in dugout before a game in Los Angeles. Seated left to right: Roger Maris, Doris Day, Mickey Mantle, Cary Grant and Yogi Berra. The New York Yankee stars had made cameo appearances in the Day-Grant movie "A Touch of Mink." Yankees leave the dugout to play that day's game. Grant and Day watch the action. Brief clip from game between Yankees and Los Angeles Angels. Day claps and cheers. Announcer notes Yankees are leading the American League, while Day and Grant's movie is leading at the box office. "A Touch of Mink" would be one of the top five money-making movies of the year.
Newsreel clip highlighting games 3 and 4 of baseball's 1963 World Series. Clip opens with overhead view of 56,000 fans packed into Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton and Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale chat before the game. Brief closeup of Bouton. Dodgers score only run of the game when Tommy Davis' single scores Jim Gilliam. Brief closeup of Drysdale. Drysdale completes shutout by getting Yankees' Joe Pepitone to fly out to deep right field in the ninth inning. Drysdale mobbed by teammates. Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford and Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax -- both Hall of Famers -- chat before game four. Frank Howard scores Dodgers' first run with a home run to left field in the fourth inning. Mickey Mantle ties the game with a homer off Koufax in the seventh. Dodgers score ultimate winning run when a fly ball by Willie Davis scores Gilliam. Dodger fans cheer as Koufax strikes out Tom Tresh and Mantle in the ninth and gets final out on a ground ball by Hector Lopez. Dodger players mob Koufax, celebrate in dressing room. This was the first time ever the Yankees were swept four straight games in a World Series.
Opening scene shows sideways shots from unattended camera. When it straightens out, Hollywood stars Cary Grant and Doris Day pose between Roger Maris of the New York Yankees and Leon Wagner of the Los Angeles Angels. Grant shakes hands with Maris and Doris Day shakes hands with Wagner. Closeups of Grant conversing with Maris and Day conversing with Wagner. Next the Hollywood stars are seen surrounded by members of the Angels' team in a dugout. One of the players autographs a baseball and it is passed around to other players who also autograph it. They pass it to Doris Day who laughs with Cary Grant. Scene shifts to Doris Day and Cary Grant posing in front of a dugout, and then surrounded by Yankees players, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Yogi Berra. Cary Grant is in the background as the players shake hands with Doris Day. Next the five of them are seen, seated and conversing, in the Yankee dugout. They all step out of the dugout and the camera focuses on the movie stars. The camera is unattended momentarily and shows wild shots. Closeup of Grant and Day sitting alone in a dugout apparently watching a baseball game in progress, and cheering and laughing together. View of the game in progress on the baseball diamond. The home team Angels, in white, score a run.
The 1937 Los Angeles Open Golf Tournament at Griffith Park Golf Course (5500 Griffith Park Dr. Los Angeles, CA 90027). Competitors at the tournament play their shots. A crowd of spectators watches closely. Light horse of the tournament Harry Cooper wins the tournament defeating Horton Smith and Ralph Guldahl. Harry Cooper poses with victory sign, $2500 victory check and usual honors.
An Eichler X-100 experimental house with modernistic features displayed for public in San Francisco. A couple arrives to visit the house. They observe the new concepts. Innovative applications of glass and plastics seen in the house. Domed skylights seen. Gardens inside and out, with an Asian influence. Modern kitchen with dining table that opens in the middle to reveal a stovetop.
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