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The New York Giants in 1917 baseball World Series games 3 and 4 in New York against the Chicago White Sox.

Baseball 1917 World Series games numbers three and four in New York at Polo Grounds IV stadium in Upper Manhattan, New York City. A large crowd gathers at the stadium to watch the game. New York Mayor John Mitchel arrives along with officers and Mayor Mitchel throws out the first pitch. World Series Baseball game 3 in progress. Giants take the lead at 2 - 0 in the fourth. Robinson scores on Holke's double. Burns singles, sending Holke home. A closeup view of Dave Robertson and Rube Benton in the dugout. The crowd cheers the teams. View also from game 4 where Benny Kauff gets two home runs and Giants win game 4 also. New York crowd, all men, cheering the game 4 win. Mass of spectators exiting the stadium after the game.

Date: 1917, October 10
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045977
Russian elections in 1917 and subsequent takeover by Bolsheviks.

Russian movie depiction of the storming of the Romanoff's winter palace during the 1917 revolution in Russia.(This is a fictional event that never occurred.) Scene shifts to election campaigning on a street in Moscow, in conjunction with the November 25th elections arranged by political leader Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky. Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is seen with several comrades. A truck carrying Bolsheviks with a banner drives on a street, as a pedestrian gives it a dismissive wave. (Bolsheviks lost the election to the Socialist Revolutionary Party, or SR.) Soviet troops loyal to Leon Trotsky march in the street. View of elected members from the Russian assembly in their meeting place. Catherine Breshkovsky, sometimes called Babushka, or the grandmother of the Russian Revolution, is seen standing and addressing the meeting. The faction of the SR not supporting Lenin is seen leaving the building. Thousands of citizens gathered outside the building, protesting the dismissal of their elected representatives. Image of Lenin.

Date: 1917, November 25
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064325
Various scenes dealing with World War 1 and American General Pershing, spanning 1917 to 1927.

A ship underway near a U.S. port. President Woodrow Wilson seen signing the declaration of war against Germany in World War 1. A close up of the start of the draft process, as two blind-folded civilian men draw the first draft numbers for American men to enter service in World War 1. U.S. Army General John J. Pershing stands in a line with other Army officers circa 1917. A large group of people together inside a large cross-shaped stage (possibly American red cross drive of some kind during World War I). Scene on July 4, 1927 in Indianapolis, Indiana, as General Pershing participates in cornerstone laying ceremonies for the Indiana World War Memorial at American Legion Headquarters. General Pershing is with Governor Ed Jackson, Marcus Sonntag, and Adjt General William H. Kershner. General Pershing places wreath on a service flag during the ceremony. Other Indianapolis buildings and view of people on streets in the background.

Date: 1917
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068723
Bolsheviks distribute leaflets and posters to Russians during the March 1917 Russian Revolution

March 1917 revolution in Russia. Russians marching on the streets of Petrograd (now known as Saint Petersburg). A man throws Bolshevik leaflets at a passing tram. Men and women grab leaflets. More communist pamphlets and leaflets thrown at crowds. Crowds holding handwritten signs in Russian as they parade in the streets. Crowds waving their hats. Bolshevik men and women in uniform raise their swords. Russians with rifles and hats smiling. A Bolshevik soldier smashes a Russian Empire double headed eagle (Crest of the Royal Family) with the butt of his rifle from the facade of a building. Russian crowds gathered in a square.

Date: 1917, March
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079238
1917 World Series game one: The Chicago White Sox versus the New York Giants from Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois.

Scenes from the 1917 baseball World Series. Game 1 in Chicago, Illinois. A large crowd gathering at Comiskey Park to watch the game. Fans lined up in front of sign for bleacher seating with sign "Bleachers 50 cents". Scenes from the field before the game. Managers Pants Rowland of the White Sox and John McGraw of the Giants reviewing ground rules. Pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Slim Sallee during warm-ups. White Sox dugout is seen with Happy Felsch on the far left, John "Shano" Collins beside him, then Fred McMullin and Reb Russell (just past the big baseball). Joe Jackson and Nemo Leibold may be standing outside the dugout, with Eddie Cicotte in the background and Chick Gandil and Byrd Lynn in front of Cicotte. African American man on the Giants bench around one-minute mark may be J. L. Mackall, the team's trainer. Manager John McGraw is sitting in front of the dugout, with Art Fletcher on his right and Red Murray on his left. Scenes from the game in progress, and view of cheering fans in the packed stadium. At about 1:43: Bottom of the 3rd. Single by S. Collins, and Cicotte is thrown out at 3rd base. The next play seen is a double by McMullin scoring S. Collins, who had taken 2nd base on the throw that got Cicotte out. At 2:13: Top of the 5th inning. Single by Sallee scoring McCarty from 3rd base. White Sox win game 1 over the Giants by a score of 2 to 1. Scene changes to New York, with Giants fans jammed in the streets of New York City watching the large scoreboard being updated during the game, mounted on the building of the New York American Newspaper offices. Cars and trucks pass slowly by in the area jammed with baseball fans.

Date: 1917, October 6
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045978
Public demonstrations supporting the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia during 1917

Opening slate cites year 1917. First scene shows Russian people removing a banner from a store front, that identifies it as a provider of goods to the Russian Imperial Court. People at entrance of a building crowd around Red Army soldiers handing out paper fliers. Russian Army Cossacks gather with other soldiers in a city park square where some hold red flags. Soldiers and citizens parading in a city square carrying banners and flags. A vast city square filled with people elbow-to-elbow. Some people stand on a monument in the square. Several banners are seen. Bankers and investers at entrance and steps of a stock exchange (possibly the Brongniart's Stock Exchange building, Paris) representing Western financing of the Russian Revolution. More scenes of people marching in Russia, including a large contingent of Army soldiers in greatcoats, at the end of the film.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675072430