An overview of baseball teams preparing for the 1958 season in Florida. Views of New York Yankees' camp with manager Casey Stengel running onto field, pitchers Sal Maglie and Whitey Ford warming up. A smiling Mickey Mantle (#7) hits a ball far in batting practice. Yogi Berra (#8) and Hank Bauer (#9) take their swings. Scene shifts to the Dodgers' camp; this is the first spring after the team moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Views of pitchers Don Newcombe (#36) and Johnny Podres throwing, and players Duke Snider (#4), Gino Cimoli and Gil Hodges (#14) swinging in batting cage. Announcer notes Dodgers have big problem at catcher after Roy Campanella was put "out of service." (He was permanently paralyzed in a car accident.) Al Walker, Joe Pignatano and John Roseboro are named as his possible successors. Scene shifts to St. Louis Cardinals training camp. Announcer predicts Cardinals will be pennant contender. Views of brothers Von and Lindy McDaniel, shortstop Alvin Dark and all-time great Stan Musial. Scene then shifts to Chicago White Sox camp. Outfielder Al Smith (#9) fields a ball; Jim Rivera (#7), Nellie Fox and Smith take swings in batting cage. Action moves to Detroit Tigers camp, where pitchers Jim Bunning (#14) and Frank Lary (#17) are seen warming up. Al Kaline (#6) hits a ball in batting practice.
Background information for United States occupation forces in Japan after end of World War II. At start, the film shows sky filled with U.S. Navy airplanes flying in formations. They include Vought F4U Corsair aircraft, among others, and are seen overhead above the Battleship USS Missouri (BBB-63). Closeup of the USS Missouri with her crew in formation on deck wearing dress whites. Next, General Douglas MacArthur is seen and heard speaking from a podium on the Missouri's deck. He invites the representatives of the Emperor of Japan, and the Japanese Government, and the Japanese Imperial headquarters, to sign the instrument of surrender. The date is September 2, 1945, just after the end of World War 2. Closeups of the Japanese delegation, which includes envoys Foreign Minister Mamora Shigemitsu and General Yoshijiro Umezu, and of MacArthur. Japanese Foreign Minister Mamora Shigemitsu sits at a table. Closeups of him signing the surrender document. Change of scene to Japan, where camera pans over many thousands of Japanese people assembled to learn of their fate. Closeups of Japanese soldiers and family members, as Narrator asks how should the U.S. occupying force treat them. View of soldiers in plain non-military uniforms. Views of Japanese responding en masse to a leader, during World War 2. Views of child victims of the war. Closeup of Japanese soldier firing a short barrel light machine gun. Views of Japanese pedestrians including families, most in western dress. Japanese workers in an office. Film shows artists view of one worker's brain, and then many brains, as Narrator refers to need for reorienting Japanese thinking. View of learned wise Japanese leader at a podium. View of a Japanese soldier posed with his sword above the head of a war prisoner. Japanese mother feeding her baby. Closeups of Japanese babies. Closeups of Japanese school age children, in a group, and some doing things in school, and some at a playground. Group of uniformed Japanese students studying the art of Japanese calligraphy. Students doing artwork, studying nature outdoors, and paying attention to a teacher using a black board to explain how to calculate volumes of different shaped vessels. Students in classes of Geography and of geology. Japanese chemists, architects, and lawyers at work. Telephone switchboard operators at work. Electrified train moving on a track.
Aerial views of Copenhagen, Denmark. Swedish Fokker F.XXII passenger airplane, named "Lappland," at the airport. Danish Airline Fokker F.VII passenger airplane. It taxis quickly, and stops in front of the airport terminal. Woman passenger deplanes. Luggage is removed from aft of the cabin. A German Lufthansa Junkers JU-52 with wheel pants, taxis, and parks. Passengers and a uniformed crew member disembark from the plane. The name "A.B. Aerotransport" printed on Fokker F.XXII. A steam locomotive pulls a passenger train into railroad station (possibly leaving and not stopping). A passenger ocean liner docks. Cars, taxis and buses meet the ship. Passengers disembarking from ocean liner. Taxi carrying passengers to hotel. A finely dressed, wealthy man and woman sign in at hotel desk, as bellman or bellhop brings luggage into hotel lobby. The couple peruse a booklet showing sights in Copenhagen and discuss them in English. View of the Copenhagen City Hall (Rådhuspladsen 1, 1550 København, Denmark). Trams and cars driving past and pedestrians on sidewalks. View of clock tower on City Hall. View from high above Town Hall Square (City Hall Square 1599 Copenhagen, Denmark). Rack filled with bicycles. A messenger heading off on a bicycle. An open-air market, with many farmers' and mongers' small trucks parked in lines. Numerous customers visiting the marketplace. Flower sellers' stalls along sidewalk. Fishing boats at the pier in Nyhavn (New Harbor). People eating at tables and women preparing foods for sale. Tram operators boarding their cars and driving away. Tram operators boarding their cars and driving away. Boats in a canal and a rowboat moving through a picturesque arch under a bridge. Diners at long tables in a restaurant. A policeman. Tower of Saint Nicholas Church, now presently known as the “Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center” (Nikolaj Plads 10, 1067 København K, Denmark). View of Frederik's Church (Frederiksgade 4, 1265 København, Denmark). Church of Our Lady (Vor Frue Kirke, Nørregade 8, 1165 København, Denmark). Statue of Moses near the Church of Our Lady. An Expressionist style church, the Grundvig Memorial Church (På Bjerget 14B, 2400 København NV, Denmark). Gefion Fountain (Churchillparken, 1263 København K, Denmark). Hans Christian Andersen statue (Rådhuspladsen, 1550 København V, Denmark) near Tivoli Gardens. The equestrian statue of King Christian IX Monument (Christiansborg Ridebane 25, 1218 København, Denmark) by Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, the first equestrian statue of a monarch created by a woman sculptor. Statue of King Frederick VII (Christiansborg Slotsplads 1, 1218 København, Denmark). The equestrian statue of Archbishop Absalon (Højbro Pl., 1200 København, Denmark), the founder of Copenhagen. Statue of King Frederick V (Amalienborg Slotsplads, 1257 København K, Denmark). Formal gateway with Doric columns. King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid of Denmark in open coach. Drawbridge opening for small sailboat. Man feeding birds on the park. A bored driver presses car horn. Cars waiting for drawbridge to lower down.
A USAF F-4C aircraft makes long low approach and landing, with use of drogue chute at Ubon Royal Thai Airbase, in Thailand. during the Vietnam War. Next a two-seater training version of CAC Sabre aircraft from 79 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, is seen taxing beside the active runway. Pilot is in front cockpit only. A U.S. Air Force Kaman HH-43F Huskie (K-600) helicopter is seen carrying cargo underneath in a sling. It is passed by a fire truck moving near the active runwy. Final scene shows a McDonald F-101 Voodoo aircraft landing.
Food and gasoline ration in United States during World War II. People lined up outside a grocery store. Signs in the stores show lack of supplies. People at the counters. Gasoline Ration Card's close view. Women and men at the stores. Cars at a fueling station in Washington DC. A service station attendant pumps gas into a waiting automobile that has proper ration cards to receive the fuel. The U.S. Capitol building is visible in the background behind the car being fueled. Roads and streets with very little traffic due to gas rationing. View of pigs hanging from hooks in a meat processing plant, and being moved by meat packing workers along the processing line. Sign at the grocery store window reads 'Tuesday is meatless and also is eat-less'. Housewife in kitchen pouring fat through strainer and saving the fat oil for war effort. Young woman turns in a can of fat at the market and receives coupon for extra meat points and 4 dollars per pound of fat. Woman in kitchen crushes a tin can and puts it in a scrap metal bin to return to store for recycling. Giant trucks dumping tin collected for recycling into waiting rail boxcars. Cargo trains filled with scrap aluminum moving along railway tracks. At conclusion of World War II, sign at the fuel station reads 'Gas Rationing off No Stamps Required'. Man fuels a car. Late 1930s and mid 1940s era cars move on the road.
Opening scene shows U.S. President Ronald Reagan holding a little girl, and then standing with officials and Secret Service agents, as he prepares to enter a car. Closeup of him smiling. Closeup of President Reagan signing his autograph for spectators in a crowd. Next, Reagan and his wife Nancy are seen on November 4, 1980 waving to supporters at the Century Plaza Hotel, celebrating his election victory as the 40th U.S. President. The President elect says a few words of thanks to them. Views of the crowd cheering. Adopted son, Michael Reagan holds his son Cameron as he and his wife, Colleen Reagan, join Ronald and Nancy Reagan on the stage, followed by daughter Patricia Reagan and son Ron Reagan. The crowd cheers the President elect and his family. At this point the film begins showing images about Ronald Regan's life, starting with baby pictures; his parents; Tampico, Illinois, where he was born; Dixon, where he is seen in a school picture and with boyhood friends. A photograph of "Dutch" Reagan President of his High School Class. Reagan in photo with other members of the Eureka College football team, in Eureka, Illinois. The seal of the college. Pictures of Reagan with college classmates and teammates. Reagan posing in bathing suit when he was swimming team coach. Young Reagan, after graduation, as a sports announcer, sitting at a microphone labeled: "WHO" in Davenport, Iowa. The broadcasting tower of that radio station. A Track and field event taking place. Reagan posing with a pipe in his mouth, at the WHO radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. A baseball game in progress before a full stadium of spectators. In 1937, a Chicago baseball team is seen boarding a ship to a Spring training camp in California. (Narrator states Reagan accompanied them.) Aerial view of buildings at the First National Studios (home of Warner Brothers) in Hollywood. Ronald and Nancy Reagan, circa 1952, being applauded at a gathering when he was President of the Screen Actors Guild. Views of Reagan in U.S. Army uniform. A U.S. Army C-47 aircraft taking off from a field under attack, with fires burning and smoke rising (possibly during Japanese December 7, 1941 attack on installations in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii). U.S. Airmen standing on a ramp next to a Douglas C-47B-1-DL transport aircraft (tail number: 43-16145). What appears to be a ViP version of a B-50 aircraft parked on a ramp with an honor guard at the stairway. Ronald Reagan, in uniform, signing up for active duty. Later, Captain Reagan, U.S. Army Air Forces, is seen with other uniformed men at a gathering in Warner Brothers studios. The entrance of Paramount Pictures studios in Hollywood. A large group of studio employees walking between buildings. Reagan speaking, as President, of the Screen Actors Guild, at an outdoor gathering. Actor Robert Young and film industry executives stand nearby. Reagan, as Chairman of the Motion Picture Industry Council, addresses a dinner gathering of that organization. He is also seen testifying before he House Committee on Un-American activities Committee (HUAC) on October 23, 1947.
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