Brief newsreel clip covering Babe Ruth's final game with the New York Yankees at the Griffith Stadium (Present day Howard University Hospital, 2041 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20060, United States) in Washington DC, USA. Players, photographers, and dignitaries honor Ruth before the game with ceremony around home plate. Man presents Ruth, wearing the New York Yankees road uniform, with an award. Ruth accepts it and talks briefly, standing next to his wife Claire, seen at right. Brief shot of Washington Senators pitcher Orville Armbrust throwing. (Armbrust would get the only win of his major league career in this game.) Ruth, pictured in a different game and in home uniform, steps into batter's box. Scene of Ruth hitting a home run from earlier in his career.
Robber Clyde Barrow behind the bars. He is released on parole in 1932. He hooks up with Raymond Hamilton in a wide ranging crime spree that included murder of storekeeper J. N. Busher, in Texas. Newspaper front pages tracking the criminal acts of the Barrow and the Arrow gangs. In Dallas County Jail William Daniel Jones, a member of Barrow gang, speaks, for the record, about Clyde Barrow. From "The Retribution of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker."
Scenes from the "The American Queen of Beauty ' pageant in New York City, United States, in October 1934. (The "Miss America" pageant was not held in 1934 due to Great Depression financial troubles that affected the pageant in 1933. This "American Queen of Beauty" pageant was sponsored by Madison Square Garden, and held only this one time, in 1934). Contestants in swim suits move around the judges. The judges consisting of experts are seated on the center of the stage. Helen Mack, who was Miss New York State, is seen being given the title of American Queen of Beauty after she defeated 3,000 girls from 30 states. She holds the silver winner's cup.
Mineral resources in Texas. Film titled 'Glimpses of Texas'. Map of Texas. Location of Texas and its size in United States. Natural gas field at panhandle. Map shows areas containing gas and oil reserves. Towers, big machines at crude oil refinery. Oil refinery in Texas manufacturing petroleum products. Cliff side gas and helium field in Texas. Government helium plant. Its office and men going coastal sulfur deposits. Sulfur wells. Sulfur piles. Train at a sulfur plant.
Reenactment of highlights in criminal career of Bonnie & Clyde, with actual scenes of their final demise. Dallas, Texas. Clyde meets waitress Bonnie Parker. External view of Baltimore Dairy Lunch diner. Sign reads, "Open All Night" Bonnie and Clyde sit on running board of a car and drink. Clyde shoots a bird with a gun. Two officers on motorcycles approach them. They kill the officers by shooting them with rifles. Bonnie and Clyde get in their car and drive away. Bodies on the road. Police, determined to end Bonnie and Clyde's continuing crimes, set up an ambush for them on a gravel road in Louisiana. They maintain the stakeout for three days. When Bonnie and Clyde show up the police open fire, killing them both. View of the actual death scene, with the bodies of Bonnie and Clyde seen in their gun shot riddled car. From "The Retribution of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker."
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt with his wife Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt and newly appointed Cabinet aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) to view U.S. Navy maneuvers. U.S. Navy battleships, the aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) and other ships in New York Harbor. Officials including U.S. War Secretary George Dern, Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels, Admiral Standley, and others can be seen. Biplane airplanes of the United States Navy fleet in a flight formation pass New York City. Troops on Governor's Island offer a salute. Views of skyline of New York City in the background. Views of large warships passing by with Statue of Liberty in the background. Numerous views of skyline of New York City with tall skyscrapers on Manhattan Island, as seen from ships moving in harbor.
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