Chicago White Sox get ready for the baseball season, March 1950. Players warm up throwing arms. Manager Jack Onslow, second from right, confers with coaches. Pitchers Bill Wight and Bob Kuzava chat. Players practice sliding in sliding pit, send sawdust flying. Hall of Fame shortstop Luke Appling (#4) clowns for the camera with an oversize mitt. Pitcher Billy Pierce (#19) throws batting practice. Hall of Fame second baseman Nellie Fox (#26) swings at a pitch. Slugger Gus Zernial (#6) takes a swing. (Note: There is no indication where the film was shot but the White Sox trained that year in Pasadena California.)
Newsreel clip showing St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers and New York Giants at spring training before the 1935 baseball season. Cardinal players come on to the field. Manager Frankie Frisch hits ground balls in practice. Shots of star pitchers Paul Dean and Dizzy Dean warming up in front of ramshackle-looking stands and wooden building. Clip shifts to Tigers' camp. Manager Mickey Cochrane talks to pitcher Lynwood "Schoolboy" Rowe, who predicts he will have a better year than 1934. Shots of Rowe throwing pitches to catcher Ray Hayworth. Clip shifts to New York Giants training camp. Pitchers including #12 Freddy Fitzsimmons and #18 Roy Parmalee take part in warmup drill in front of fans. Palm trees in background. Manager Bill Terry hits ground balls in practice. Shortstop Dick Bartell fields a ball. Giant players perform ball tricks. A serious Terry says the addition of new players has improved the club and predicts the Giants will win the National League pennant. (Note: Giants finished third.)
Large radio antenna seen against sunset background. Still image of the Apollo 13 command and service module in space. Footage of interior of Apollo 13 command and service module. Scrolling text marquee on a building reads, "describe damage as a real mess...." Men watching Apollo 13 on TV during difficulties. Women watching Apollo 13 problems. Apollo 13 Flight Director Gene Kranz on headset at mission control. Other flight controllers seen at mission control. Off camera, Gene Kranz notes that they are all taught that "between God, country, and your own capability, you can solve any problem that may occur in flight." Brief view of CRT display at mission control. Apollo 13 astronauts in capsule reading manuals. Flight engineer at mission control clapping. Scrolling text marquee on building reads "splashdown...." Entire Apollo 13 mission control team engineers clapping while watching splashdown of Apollo 13 capsule. Smiling young woman jumps with glee while watching Apollo 13 splashdown. Color television displays Apollo 13 capsule floating in ocean. Wide view of mission control engineers standing and clapping as they watch Apollo 13 astronauts arrive at rescue ship. Shadow of large radio antenna on desert while foreground dish moves. Earth view from horizon of the moon. Apollo 13 lunar module flying just above the surface of the moon.
NASA logo. A message scrolls from a sign saying, “Glenn ready for orbital flight”. A message scrolls through the black screen “Friendship 7”. View of Times Square across the Hotel Claridge and the iconic “Camel Man” billboard. View of London, United Kingdom across the Big Ben Tower of London. View of Paris, France. Italian vegetable market vendor peels an artichoke and talks about the American astronaut, John Glenn, and his impending take off from Cape Canaveral as the first American to orbit earth. An Arab vendor sells children’s jackets. View of Hong Kong. View of Japanese neon signs in Tokyo- a Japanese kanji character meaning “East”, and “Toshiba”. A Mexican mariachi walks in a park carrying a guitar case. Views of television sets showing news about the launch of Friendship 7- the spaceship carrying John Glenn. Close-up views of various consumer vintage black and white television sets with television screens all showing scenes about Friendship 7 preparing to launch. McDonnell engineers work in Cape Canaveral to prepare Friendship 7 for launch. Engineers jot down notes. A NASA engineer pushed some buttons. An “Astronautics” scientist observes the status of the Friendship 7.
View of Friendship 7 spacecraft orbital flight path on control center map. View of NASA flight controllers of the Mercury-Atlas 6 network at Cape Canaveral. Flight controllers are on their early generation computers (IBM 7090), making calculations and research vital to the Mercury-Atlas 6 flight. View of the board displaying the Friendship 7 flight path. Flight controller talks on headset, saying "roger CTC, Control Center is go."
Various scenes of sunrise and nature with reading of verses from book of Genesis in the bible by the crew of the Apollo 8 Mission. Clouds pass over during an impending sunrise. The sun rises. Astronaut Bill Anders reads “We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness”. “And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Says Jim Lovell. Sunrise by a lake. Apollo launch site during sunrise.
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