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.
Collision of New York bound express passenger railraod train with local train at Readville, Massachusetts. The trains collided at the crossing derailing the cars of opposite train and leaving 50 people injured. Low visibility due to snow blamed for disaster.1931.
Henry Ford and Edsel Ford inspect tunnel and power house in the Ford River Rouge plant in the United States. A group of men inside the Ford power plant. Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and his son,Edsel Ford, inside the power plant. A group of men near a turbine inside the power plant. The men beside a new 1931 Ford cabriolet automobile. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford with a few men in the car. Other men stand near the vehicle.
The U.S. Navy battleship, USS Tennessee (BB-43) passing the camera while conducting trials on Long Island Sound, in October, 1920, after being fitted out following her commissioning at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on on June 3, 1920. Her triple turret 14-inch guns are clearly visible as is the name, Tennessee, on her stern. She is seen again, raising plumes of black smoke as she steams in the opposite direction. All four of her triple 14-inch gun turrets are visible in silhouette. She is making good speed in very calm waters. (The camera ship is challenged to keep pace.) The Tennessee maneuvers to port in a fairly sharp turn, and the camera ship moves into her wake. A civilian, in hat and overcoat, is seen momentarily on the camera ship. More views of the Tennessee, include some from a distance as she maneuvers and heads toward the camera ship.
Winter flood sweep four states in the United States. Devastation caused by winter flood in the states of Kentucky,Tennessee,Virginia and West Virginia. Rescue crew ride boats. Men aboard the vehicles drive through the flooded roads. The bridge and houses submerged in water.
The activities around the Mississippi River in the United States. Mules with slip shovels used to construct the levee embankment. Mules plow a field. Men work on the farm field. View of the plow. Men picking cotton from field. Smoke comes out of the smoke stack of a steamboat. A steamboat named "Assiniboine" in the river. Men load the steamboat with sacks. View of a bell. Men roll the sacks of cotton into the steamboat. View of Steamboat "Tennessee Belle" being loaded also. Steamboats in the Mississippi river. People aboard the steamboats, including the Chris Greene, the Tennessee Belle, and the Ouachita, which later became the Greene Lines's barge Stogie White.
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