Newsreel clip previewing Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees at spring training prior to 1951 baseball season. The defending National League champion Phillies trained that year in Clearwater Florida. Players pose under sign that reads "Home of the Fightin' Phlilies." Shot of team owner Robert Carpenter and manager Eddie Sawyer. Shots of pitchers Robin Roberts, Jim Konstanty and Bubba Church warming up. Hitters seen in batting cage include Willie Jones, Eddie Waitkus and Andy Seminick. Clip shifts to Yankees' spring training in Phoenix, Arizona, where team holds up numbers and letters reading "1950 Champs" to mark their victory over the Phillies in the World Series. Manager Casey Stengel puts on cowboy hat and strikes a funny pose for the camera. Yankee players also don the hats, including 1950 American League MVP Phil Rizzuto and soon-to-be 1951 MVP Yogi Berra. Stengel talks with group of six Yankee rookies, including future Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle at far right. Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio points bat at camera, smiles by batting cage.
College-age African American patrons sit at the counter of a soda shop enjoying sodas. A man gestures for a refill. A man fills a glass from a soda fountain machine. A man flips pancakes in a kitchen. African American teens talk and enjoy food at tables in the soda shop cafe. Soda shop cashier hands a customer their change and closes cash register. Black teenagers chatting.
An African American artist teaches a class. Mrs William E Harmon and others at the Spanish African American art exhibition along with Pastor Argudin y Pedroso. Malvin Gray Johnson lights his pipe and begins painting. Sculptor William Ellisworth Artis teaches a student who is creating a dolphin-inspired piece. Photographer James Latimer Allen takes photographs using a large format camera on tripod. Painter Richard William Lindsey watches students painting in a class.
Documentary about use of trees titled 'Cut and Dried' by Ford Company. The logs tied with boom chains transported by train through snowy tracks. At the lumber mill they are cleaned, and transported using a conveyor belt. Logs are then sheared and cut into pieces of dimensional lumber with. The finished lumber is used for various building projects: A man carving what appears to be a bed headboard. A man building chairs. A woman artist painting an ornate design on a piece of wooden furniture. Construction workers building a house with wood framing lumber.
Documentary titled ' In higher spheres'. Panoramic view of a mountain lake with mountains in the background. Campers at a camp site by the lake. People hiking up snowcapped mountains and hikers throwing snowballs. Trekkers climbing glacier on rock ridge. 1920.
Documented titled ' In higher spheres'. Various views of a waterfall. Group of people on a cliff looking at the waterfall. Field of wild flowers.1920.
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