Newsreel clip titled "Chicago Cubs Head For Pennant Year With Lofty Hopes.' Shows Cubs at spring training camp in 1941 at Catalina Island California. Team runs around baseball field situated near mountains and houses, seen in the background. Close ups of team manager Jimmie Wilson, holding catcher's glove. Shots of Hall of Fame pitcher Dizzy Dean on pitching mound, showing young boy how to throw. Shots of Cubs players warming up their arms. Dean (#22) seen throwing to Wilson in batting cage. Pitcher Larry French (no cap) seen throwing to Cub batter who takes a weak swing. Unidentified player throws pitch to outfielder Dom Dallessandro (#31). Player slides into second base as Billy Herman (#4) practices double play. Players hold bats in mock firing position. (World War II period).
As martial fanfare music plays in the background, Camera pans down from clouds, to Huge eagle adorning top of grandstand at Zeppelinfeld (Zeppelin field) in the Nazi Party grounds, Nuremberg, during the 6th Party Congress of 1934. Huge numbers of flag bearers move en masse across the field. View of them descending a slope and marching toward the field. It is late in the day and cloudy. The camera focuses on the flags more than the flag-bearers. A glimpse of Adolf Hitler spot-lighted as he stands on a podium near microphones. More flags. Then Hitler, again, from behind him, on the podium, as he has his hand raised in Nazi salute. Masses of flags parading across the field in fading light. Closeup of Hitler saluting. The Horst-Wessel anthem is played as a dirge in the meantime. Hitler speaks, about some 200 thousand persons assembled here. Camera begins to pan in a circle around the base of the podium, focusing on Hitler as he speaks, about all being together and the strength of their unity. Closeup views of Hitler from various angles with dramatic lighting, as he speaks. Evoking patrotism, Hitler talks about thinking every minute of every hour about Germany, the Reich, and the nation, and concludes with a rousing "Sieg Heil." Views from distance of the spotlighted eagle and flags at the stadium grandstand, in smoky haze of burning torches. Sounds of crowd repeating "Sieg Heil." flags dimly seen in light of torches. Silhouetted marching feet and then men carrying torches, banners, and flags, as martial music plays. Hitler seen holding a straight extended Nazi salute and then closing it, as he turns toward the camera. Formation of torches into the distance and views of uniformed men carrying them. Closeup of Hitler, standing regally, followed by more marchers who fade along with the music, to finish the film.
United States 101st Airborne Division soldiers put on field gear in Parrot's Beak, Cambodia. They sit against heaps of sand at fire base. They board UH-1D helicopter and it takes off. Soldiers move across grassy field.
Lend lease activities at American outposts in Iran. Traces routes of American shipments from United States to Iran. Cargo unloaded from ships at ports in Basra, Iraq and Khoremshar, Iran. Exterior views of U.S. military base building complex in Iran. Group of local civilians crouched and breaking a pile of rocks into smaller pieces. Aerial view of harbor area. Dock-side view of ships harbor offloading supplies. Boxes including a food box labeled "Pork Luncheon Meat" from the American company Armour and Company, and many others are unloaded and stacked at port by African American personnel. Line of African American soldiers or sailors on dock receiving food in a chow line. Railroad engines and train cars being unloaded at port. A Soviet military officer walks with a checklist and checks the shipments. Massive piles of supplies including food, tires, trucks received from America. Soviet officer reviewing supplies with an American officer.
White Russian Cossack Cavalry, who had fought with Germany, against Communist Soviet forces, parade on horseback on a street in central Zagreb, Croatia, during World War 2. They are being honored by Germany. German Cavalry officer, Lieutenant General Helmuth von Pannwitz, in fur hat, standing next to Field Marshal Paul Ludwig von Kleist, salutes the Cossacks as they pass. (He organized Cossack volunteers into the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division.) View of Cossack cavalry soldiers as they parade past the base of the equestrian statue of Josip Jelacic (Ban Josip Jelačić) in Jelacic Square, Zagreb, Croatia. (The statue is in its original north-facing placement in Ban Jelačić Square). Storefront sign in background for Cerjak I Drugovi, manufacturers of knitted goods, located at 6 Jelačić Square (Trg bana Josipa Jelačića 6, Zagreb). Individual White Russian soldiers and some German soldiers are decorated by Field Marshal Von Kleist. Afterwards, in a large field, Cossacks ride past and demonstrate a charge brandishing sabers.
Newsreel clip from "Ford News" about opening day of the 1934 baseball season at Detroit's Navin Field. View of the crowd as announcer says 24,000 turned out on a frigid day. Shots of pregame ceremonies, with parade and raising of the American flag. Firefighters present trophy that will go to team's most valuable player. Tigers manager and catcher Mickey Cochrane smiles at huge floral display showing his likeness, and is later given a new car by Ford Motor Company. Camera pans across Tigers players in warmup jackets, standing on steps of the dugout. Mayor Frank Cousins throws out first pitch. Game starts, White Sox third baseman Jimmy Dykes singles to score Luke Appling. Another White Sox player grounds out. In sixth inning, Cochrane slides into third after a hit by Goose Goslin. (Note smokestack pumping out black smoke in background.) After Cochrane scores, Hank Greenberg hits a double to score Goslin. A smiling Cochrane holds a bat in the dugout. Shots taken from unusual angle show other Tigers scoring and running bases. Clip ends with title card saying "See the Ford News at this theatre every week."
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