Images of life and typical lifestyle in America in the 1950s, including work, leisure and recreation activities. American workers work in a steel plant. Worker with protective goggles near blast furnace at work. Men and women workers in factory assembly lines including a canning factory and a light bulb factory. Woman packaging completed light bulbs at manufacturing plant. Various machines performing heavy industrial labor in the United States. Station wagon assembled on a car assembly line in an American automobile factory. John Deere farm tractors rolling off assembly line. American men and women, white and African American, assembling electrical components. Workers exit their factory after work shift. Labor representatives and corporate managers of a American company in a collective bargaining meeting. Aerial view of a post-war residential suburban neighborhood. Street view in suburb as station wagon drives into driveway of home. Children and wife greet American man coming home after work. Vintage suburban scene with period-typical housewife and family image. Man reads to children in living room while woman sews. 1950s cars on an expressway highway as people go to see a baseball game on holidays. American people watch baseball and football games in stadium during holidays. Baseball scene is in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York City. New York Yankee player with jersey number 8, Yogi Berra, is at bat. Yogi Berra gets a hit down deep down the 3rd base line. Next scene shows a football stadium with an American football game in progress. Scene changes to an American man fishing on a holiday. People working in their home gardens and seated on porches of their homes. American family on a picnic in public park, seated at a picnic table. A young child sleeps, napping during the picnic. Arts and culture: Men and women reading and studying at the Library of Congress. Views of various magazines and books read by Americans. Patrons view contemporary American paintings displayed in a art gallery or art museum. Young American sculpture artists working in an art studio, including an African American male sculptor. Symphony Orchestra performs on stage as audience listens in a concert hall.
Georgia Tech defeats SMU (Southern Methodist University) by 6-4. Northwestern University defeats Army by 33-20 Evanston, Illinois.
The Cleveland Browns play New York Giants in a game that decides the first place professional standing in the Eastern division of the NFL. Huge crowd stands cheering. Jimmy Brown takes a screen pass for 72 yards and a touchdown, and then runs 32 yards for another score. Cleveland Browns wins over New York Giants with a score of 35-24.
Coach Steve Owen in the last game of his 23 years as coach of the Giants. Players from the Lions and the Giants on the field at New York's Polo Grounds stadium. Game in progress. Crowd cheers. Detroit Lions defeat New York Giants by 27-16. Scenes include pass from Detroit Lions quarterback Bobby Lane to Leon Hart. Also a touchdown pass from New York Giants quarterback Charlie Conerly to Frank Gifford, and a Detroit Lions touchdown pass from Lane to Doak Walker followed by a 2nd touchdown run by Walker.
View of the NFL game between AFL East Boston Patriots and Buffalo Bills at a stadium in Boston Massachusetts. Thousands of spectators gathered in the stadium. Jim Nance's 65-yard touchdown and Babe Parilli's 3-yard keeper helped the Patriots to beat the Bills by 14 to 3.
Film begins as Texas takes the field, wearing red warm-up jackets. Stadium appears filled to capacity. Numerous plays in the game are seen throughout the film. A banner draped over a front row railing, in the grandstand, cites 100th anniversary of the NCAA and reads:"Welcome President Nixon." Several police officers are seen in that vicinity. Scoreboard shows Arkansas ahead 14 to nothing (after third quarter). Numerous shots of the crowd in the stands, but none showing the President or his party. As the game nears the end, some spectators appear to be covering up because of a light rain. (Note: In the 4th quarter, Texas rallied to win the game 15 to 14.)