Newsreel clip titled "Chicago Cubs Head For Pennant Year With Lofty Hopes.' Shows Cubs at spring training camp in 1941 at Catalina Island California. Team runs around baseball field situated near mountains and houses, seen in the background. Close ups of team manager Jimmie Wilson, holding catcher's glove. Shots of Hall of Fame pitcher Dizzy Dean on pitching mound, showing young boy how to throw. Shots of Cubs players warming up their arms. Dean (#22) seen throwing to Wilson in batting cage. Pitcher Larry French (no cap) seen throwing to Cub batter who takes a weak swing. Unidentified player throws pitch to outfielder Dom Dallessandro (#31). Player slides into second base as Billy Herman (#4) practices double play. Players hold bats in mock firing position. (World War II period).
Titled 'Pittsburgh Pirates Getting Into Shape at Training Camp.' Hall of Fame baseball shortstop and Pirates coach Honus Wagner plays around with a movie camera. Reverse film special effect with players. Close up of Pirates manager and Hall of Fame second baseman Frankie Frisch. Players running, doing calisthenics with mountains as backdrop. Shots of batters and pitchers warming up, including brief shots of 1940 National League batting champion Debs Garms (#18) and famous 'eephus ball' pitcher Rip Sewell (#30).
Newsreel clip titled "Cleveland Indians Coming Along Fine at Training Camp" from baseball spring training in 1941. Players come running around corner of wooden fence. Close up of Indians manager Roger Peckinpaugh. Shots of coach talking to players, batters warming up. Close up of outfielder Hal Trosky. Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller hurls curveball at catcher Rollie Hemsley. Close up of Feller pitching. Feller throws fastball at Hemsley.
A film titled 'Santa Anita Handicap' shows people buying tickets to witness annually held horse race, Santa Anita Handicap in Arcadia in California. A large number of spectators gather to witness the race. Bay View, a horse, wins the race.
Members of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) dressed in white robes and wearing conical hoods with face masks gather at the foot of Stone Mountain outside Atlanta in Georgia. They march with a person leading the march carrying a big cross with lighted bulbs. They perform an induction ceremony for new members, after leading the new men, each wearing a small face mask, across a field. They burn a large cross in the field during the membership induction ceremony.
Averell Harriman, one of the Presidential candidates, is seen. A number of distinguished statesmen make speeches at Democratic National Convention at International Amphitheater in Chicago in Illinois. John F. Kennedy also makes a speech as large crowd cheers. People take pictures as well. Senator and Vice Presidential candidate Estes Kefauver and his wife are seen on the dais. Former President Harry S. Truman speaks to the Convention.
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