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Henry Cotton wins inaugural Greenbrier Pro-Am golf tournament at The Greenbrier Resort in 1948

Winners are recognized and receive their awards at the inaugural Greenbrier Professional-Amateur (Pro-Am) golf tournament at The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The golf tournament, later known as the Same Snead Festival, finished on April 19, 1948, and served also as a marquee reopening event for The Greenbrier Resort following its use as a U.S. military hospital in World War 2. Brief shot of scoreboard at end of tournament. British golf professional Henry Cotton stands with his amateur partner Merrel Meigs. They are joined by the tying first-place team of Johnny Bulla and his amateur partner John Simms Kelly (Shipwreck Kelly). Also with Kelly is his wife Brenda (nee Brenda Frazier). Meigs holds a silver tray prize commemorating the event. Henry Cotton receives $1800 prize money ($1000 as the top finishing professional with a par 70 score, plus $800 for team competition). Kelly also receives a prize money envelope for his team's first place tying score. View of spectators walking on the Resort grounds. Crowd coming across a foot bridge led by golfer celebrities Bing Crosby, Chris Dunphy (Christopher J. Dunphy), and Ben Hogan. Elevated shot of play underway on the green. Shot of crowd moving to a new hold during the competition. Shot of golf ball landing in a muddy puddle.

Location: White Sulphur Springs West Virginia USA
Date: 1948, April 19
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037950
Scenes from 1948 Greenbrier Resort inaugural Pro-Am golf tournament

Golf scenes on the course of The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Players including celebrities present for the reopening of the resort after its closure during World War 2. Four players stand together in front of the golf country club building then known as "The Casino." They include Railway industrialist Robert R. Young (host of the event), British filmmaker J Arthur Rank (a then business partner of Robert Young in their Eagle-Lion Films endeavor), Britain's Duke of Windsor, and former U.S. Senator Burton K Wheeler of Montana. Several scenes of the four men playing golf, including shots with the Duke of Windsor putting, with pipe in mouth, and J. Arthur Rank putting on the green.

Location: White Sulphur Springs West Virginia USA
Date: 1948, April
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037952
British soldiers watch over large number of European Jewish immigrants in Palestine

A large number of Jewish immigrants from Europe in Palestine are monitored and processed by British soldiers, after World War 2. The immigrants are in good spirits and some are dancing the Hora. Groups of immigrant men are seen. One man is seen drying clothes on stone bank of drainage ditch.

Location: Palestine
Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038026
A man interviews freed Los Banos internee Leopold Damrosch and Ned Davenport at Bilibid prison in Muntilupa,Philippines

From a sequence of interviews with freed former prisoners from the Los Baños prison camp in the Philippines during World War 2. At the former Bilibid Prison, a man interviews Reverend Leopold Damrosch (grand nephew of the famous composer and conductor Walter Damrosch) and Ned Davenport (son of famous movie actor Harry Davenport). The two men had not seen each other in 11 or 12 years. Davenport asks Damrosch about how he feels to be liberated and what he thinks of the U.S. Army personnel and equipment. Damrosch expresses delight at his liberation by the paratroopers from Los Baños and that it was great to be liberated by the U.S. forces. The two of them talk to each other over a mike and shake hands.

Location: Muntilupa Philippines
Date: 1945, March 9
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038482
Machine gun and mortar attack on wounded Japanese position on hill 2380 in Philippines by U.S. Army 511th Parachute Infantry

United States 511th Parachute Infantry attacks hill 2380 in Philippines during World War 2. Soldiers ascend the hill. Narrator describes scenes shown. Camera pans to show a wounded Japanese soldier far in the distance. Camera holds on that position for some minutes. U.S. machine guns and mortar shells strike at the Japanese position on which the camera is trained.

Location: Philippines
Date: 1945, April 25
Duration: 8 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038696
Early aircraft like Curtiss Pusher plane and Farman Pusher displayed in Los Angeles, California

Pre World War I historic aircraft shown taking off and flying in Los Angeles, California. Curtiss Pusher plane flies and lands. Farman Pusher in a field as a man gets into the cockpit.

Location: Los Angeles California USA
Date: 1966
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038703
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