Enactment about Lead Belly, an American folk and blues musician in United States. Lead Belly also known as Huddie William Ledbetter he sings a song 'Irene Goodnight' and plays guitar as his wife Martha Ledbetter sits in a chair and others stand during a get together. He plays a guitar and hums along. Two men arrive outside the house and enter it.
Musicologist John Lomax, plays recording of music by Lead Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter), an American folk and blues musician. John Lomax holds one of the aluminum disc recording of Lead Belly's music that he and his son, Allan, recorded for the Library of Congress. He has some difficulty placing it and playing it on a victrola phonograph. They listen to the recording, and Lomax comments about it as it plays. View of an interior section of Library of Congress. John Lomax and Library staff person enter and replace the record in a container, with others from the Lead Belly collection.
Animation shows the first Soviet satellite Sputnik being launched into space early in the "space race." Animated cartoon shows Sputnik 1 being launched by a rocket booster. Rocket takes off and detaches later on. Satellite being placed in the earth's orbit. Narrator refers to the satellite as a "new moon". Satellite orbiting the earth. Technician in front of IBM computers receives telemetry.
Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko in Washington D.C., United States. Reporters gathered outside United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles's house in Washington D.C., United States. Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko arrives for a meeting with the Secretary. Gromyko and Secretary Dulles come out of the house after the meeting.
Highlights of a football game between Ohio and Washington in Seattle, Washington. The Ohio Buckeyes and the Washington Huskies battle it out in the 3rd quarter of the football match. A large crowd watches the game from the spectators stands. Ohio beats Washington 35-7.
Newsreel clip on game four of baseball's 1957 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Milwaukee Braves at County Stadium in Milwaukee. Exterior view of the stadium, surrounded by big 1950s style cars. Shots of Braves' teepee and Indian logos. Closeup of Elston Howard, the first African American man to play for the Yankees. Howard hits a three-run homer in the top of the ninth inning to tie the game. Medium shot of fans in the stands. The Yankees go ahead in the top of the tenth but Braves third baseman Eddie Mathews blasts a three-run homer in the bottom of tenth to win the game and even the series at 2-2. Mathews mobbed by jubilant teammates at home plate.
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