Players prepare for the 1962 baseball season at spring training camps. Members of the New York Yankees run onto field in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. Brief shots of star Yankee pitchers Whitey Ford and Luis Arroyo chatting. Rare shot of Hall of Famer Robin Roberts in Yankee uniform, trying to catch on with New York after being released by Philadelphia Phillies. Shot of rookies Phil Linz and Tom Tresh, both of whom would make the team. Fans in stands applaud as sluggers Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris take swings in the batting cage. Maris and Mantle pose for photographers. Scene shifts to the first training camp of the Houston Colt 45's in Apache Junction, Arizona. The Colt 45s, later renamed the Astros, were one of two new National League teams that year. Manager Paul Richards and coach Harry Craft watch players from dugout. Mountains visible in background as pitchers Jim Umbricht, Bobby Shantz and Dick Ferrell warm up. Third baseman Jim McDaniel fields a ground ball during infield practice. Scene shifts to the San Francisco Giants' training camp in Phoenix Arizona. Harvey Kuenn, Willie Mays, Matty Alou and Felipe Alou pose with bats for the camera. Giants pitchers each take a turn pitching, the last one being former Yankee Don Larsen. Kuenn and Mays lash hits in batting cage. Final scene is in St. Petersburg Florida, where the expansion New York Mets are holding their first spring training. Manager Casey Stengel talks with his coaches and shows off the Mets uniform. Shots of pitchers Roger Craig and Jay Hook throwing. Shots of shortstop Felix Mantilla, second baseman Charlie Neal and first baseman Gil Hodges doing infield practice. Announcer says the Mets' pep "should raise the expectations of New York fans" -- an ironic statement, given the Mets would lose 120 games that year, still a Major League Baseball record.
'A better Chicago'. Unemployed men on the streets during the Great Depression. They sleep on the streets and stand in queues and relief lines in Chicago, Illinois. A young man asks another man for work and is rejected, but the other man gives him a coin to help him. Unemployed and hungry men digging through trash cans and sleeping on park benches and in doorways. Whistles blow at factories representing work starting again and available jobs. Men look up from relief lines and head to factories for new jobs. Men grabbing shovels and digging in the ground. Men working at steel factories. Smoke pouring from smoke stacks at factories. Men in pay line at factory to receive payment from cashier office. Happy men and women lifting up a young smiling child. Views of racks of milk bottles and full bread racks. Children slide down a slide into a swimming pool. Boys and girls playing on playground equipment and smiling. A family of a man and womand and two children walking together. Men working on sewage infrastructure projects in the Chicago area. View of projects underway to develop lakefront areas of Lake Michigan. Skyline and skyscrapers of Chicago seen in the background. View of the Field Museum and workers inside constructing fossil and zoology displays. Men working in construction to build and improve runways and tarmac areas at Chicago Municipal Airport (Midway International Airport). A plane taking off overhead above the workers building a runway. Low, roadside view of 1930s cars going by on road near Lincoln Park extension project area. View of Chicago city skyline buildings in the background. Men work at planting trees and expanding the Lincoln Park with an extension. Men with excavating machines and tractors work at the site of the former Chicago 1893 World's Fair (World's Columbian Exposition), transforming the area into the new 500 acre Jackson Park. Construction workers build a new Field House at Wilson Park. An old building is demolished to make way for a new housing development named after Jane Addams. Men building new low income housing apartment buildings for poor families on the site.
U.S. sea power in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Aerial view of landing craft speeding through the water below. Animated map of Pacific Islands including the Solomons, New Britain, and New Guinea. Shows arrows depicting American amphibious assaults on Russell Islands in February, 1943; on New Guinea, and Rendova in June, on New Georgia in July, on Eastern New Georgia in August, on Choiseul, in October, and Bouganvillle in November, 1943. Aerial view of a Pacific Island airfield. Grumman F4F aircraft with engine running on an aircraft carrier. Bow view of an American Essex class Aircraft Carrier making way in heavy seas. A Douglas Dauntless airplane heading away from a carrier (in background). Map showing locations of American North and South Pacific naval forces and arrows pointing to Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and then to the Marshall Islands (Kwajalein Atoll and Enewetak Atoll). American infantry marching with full field packs, at a port, where they board transport ships. An artillery field piece being loaded on the ship, along with landing vehicles tracked, and army trucks. A convoy of troop ships and supply ships at sea.
A college football match between Columbia and Dartmouth, played at Baker Field (Baker Athletics Complex, 505 West 218th Street, New York, N.Y. 10034) in New York. Tom Vassell rolls out and passes to Dick Hassan who marks up his second touchdown in the game. Billy King pitches to Dave Evans for a seven-yard gain. Tom Spangenbird takes a handoff and goes 18 yards for a touchdown. Final score is Columbia 35, Dartmouth 14.
Displaced homeless people and refugees gather in grassy area near a railroad station, following explosion of the World War I shell loading facility. The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion, sometimes called the Morgan Depot Explosion, occurred in October 4, 1918. The plant was one of the largest munitions facilities in the world at the time. Damage was extensive in the South Amboy and Sayreville area. Clip shows a refugee family posing together, sitting in the grass. Many billboard signs are on nearby fences and a grass and sidewalk area beside railroad tracks. The Perth Amboy Railroad Depot (train station) building on Smith Street is seen behind them (this building has since been moved to Lewis Street). With Martial Law imposed, the next scene shows a Coast Guard or Navy sailor on patrol to keep law and order and prevent looting in front of destroyed shopping area stores on Smith Street in Perth Amboy, including the Reynolds Brothers store (Reynolds Bros), at 134 Smith Street (also 136 Smith Street and 138 Smith Street), where the windows are blown out and debris are seen inside the store. The explosion of the Gillespie plant was one of three similar events in the New York-New Jersey area during World War 1: The Black Tom Explosion in 1916, the Kingsland Explosion in 1917, and then the Morgan Depot Explosion in 1918.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York. The President drives his personal Ford Phaeton automobile along the original tree-lined driveway to his family estate, Springwood, in Hyde Park, New York. The President parks beside a tree on the drive. His daughter, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, dressed in riding attire, steps forward and places a tape measure around the tree to measure it's circumference. The President participates in the measurement activity from the seat of his car.
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