A pier made of bales of natural rubber on fire in Staten Island, United States. Flames of fire rise. Firefighters arrive on site. Firemen hamper water pressure to blow fire. Cloud of smoke arises from pier. A ship splashes water over fire. A helicopter in flight. Aerial view of burning pier.
Little pocket billiard player Jean Balukas in New York. Jean strikes balls with stick. Her dad stands and watches. She pots balls one by one and finishes the game. Jean stands with cue stick and smiles.
Ringling Brothers Circus Show in Bellevue Hospital, New York. An elephant and a dog perform and work together, the ringmaster with them. Patients watch. Elephant lifts its trunk and stands on stool with its hind legs. Clowns in audience, they walk on wall of ring. Masked clowns. Dwarf clowns perform an act in ring. Audience watches.
The 1963 Belmont Stakes Derby in the New York Aqueduct Racetrack (110-00 Rockaway Blvd, Jamaica, NY 1142) of Queens, New York. Crowd watches. Horses including Chateaugay, Braulio Baeza, Willie Shoemaker, Bonjour, and Candy Spots run in the Kentucky Derby. Audience cheers them. Chateaugay wins the Belmont Stakes and 100,000$ price money. Candy Spots comes second.
The Atlantic Cat Club Competition in New York. Cats in the satin covered basket. Cats including Rosedear, Dresden Cotton Tom, Sir Boss of Khiva and Yum Yum on floor and their reflection on floor. Woman carries a cat on her shoulders, around her neck.
Newsreel clip showing baseball great Babe Ruth exercising indoors during the winter of 1932. Title card says he is demanding $80,000 contract -- he would receive a reported $75,000 instead. Ruth, wearing shorts and sweatshirt, climbs on stationary cycle and begins pedaling as a man rides another cycle beside him. Camera pans down to Ruth's well-known skinny legs. Ruth looks at clock on wall, wipes sweat from his face. Next, Ruth sits in 1930s-style sauna box and takes a sauna with a towel over his head. Other man playfully shoves his head while he is inside the box. Same man later seen wearing boxing gloves and throwing several punches at Ruth's stomach. Ruth takes a few, then delivers a left-handed punch to the head that pushes the much smaller man away.
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