British snipers move towards Naples, Italy during World War II. British soldiers with rifles at ready near a window of a house. Soldiers in a single file march down a battle scarred road and climb up mountains. Wrecked buildings in the background. A military vehicle on a road. Smoke rises from the base of a mountain ridge.
A man carrying a fishing rod, makes his way on horseback, along the edge of Wolf Creek in the Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. He pauses occasionally to cast his fishing line into the shallows. Waters of the creek are moving rapidly behind him. Change of scene shows people riding chairlift up a cableway, over a grassy slope. Visitors sightseeing on the patio of the Jackson Lake Lodge in the park. The Grand Teton mountains visible in the background. A photographer carrying a tall tripod. Visitors viewing a park display describing the mountains and scene in front of them. A couple taking photographs of the mountains. Park visitors moving single file on horseback through park lands. A band of crushed rock lining the base of a hill near a road. Some people near a wooden structure in the park.
Newsreel clip looking back at the life of baseball's greatest player, Babe Ruth, after his death from cancer on August 16, 1948. Ruth speaks to the camera. Outside view of Yankee Stadium (1 E 161 St, Bronx, NY 10451, United States) in New York. Young boys watch the game in the stands. Babe Ruth swats a home run. Spectators stand and cheer as Ruth runs around the bases. Ruth wipes his face with a towel. Ruth surrounded by two police officers and large group of children, eating hot dogs and ice cones. Ruth gives a baseball bat to a young boy (possibly a polio victim). An older Ruth climbs out of a 1940s-style car, walks into a doctor's office. A group of boys sitting outside on the steps, waiting to get a glimpse of Babe Ruth. The scene shifts to Ruth's late-in-life visit to Yankee Stadium. Ruth puts on his old #3 Yankee uniform, knocks on his locker in the locker room, and emerges from the tunnel to a huge ovation from fans. He tips his cap, stands on field as Yankees pay tribute.
King Faisal II of Iraq aboard USS Oriskany in the United States. Sailors on the deck of aircraft carrier USS Oriskany. The King and his party members aboard the ship. The royal party aboard Oriskany. An admiral points out a U.S. Navy carrier based fighter aircraft F6F Hellcat to the King. The King with his party on the deck. The admiral escorts the party members.
A film titled 'Aqua Cheetah' shows water and land test of an Aqua Cheetah sea jeep at the Holabird Quartermaster Motor Base in Maryland, United States. A man drives a sea jeep in water. The man drives the sea jeep on a road. He operates the controls of the jeep. The man gets off from the jeep and opens the engine at the back of the jeep. A propeller on the jeep. The Aqua Cheetah moves on a dirt road. The man drives the sea jeep in the water and crosses a river easily. A building in the foreground. The jeep in water. The jeep comes back on land and moves on the road. A car parked in the foreground.
German civilians seen walking, from time to time, in Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin, during summer of 1945, after end of World War 2, in Europe. Behind them is the bombed out remains of the Französischer Dom (French Cathedral). The walls have collapsed in places and Statuary in niches have been severely damaged, including one seen headless. Camera pans up the side of the cathedral, to the base of the dome, and then to an iron fence with a makeshift sign (in beautiful script) reading "Französischer Dom." A man walks past the camera, wearing a back pack. Camera shows fallen brick and other rubble at steps, below the iron fence and sign. Glimpse of American military cameraman holding makeshift slate, with Camera equipment behind him.
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