AFP News Agency
CLEAN : STOCKSHOTS: Bolivia prepares its leap to lithium industrial production
In one of the largest deposits of lithium in the world Bolivia is preparing to make the leap to its industrial production as global demand explodes (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Foot races, relays and hurdles, 1930s
Runners start in front of stands full of spectators / VS 400 yard relay race, runners hand baton to next runner / VS high hurdle races: runners leap over hurdles, one runner tips hurdles over until he falls on track / VS hurdle races /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
At age 40 fitness guru Jack LaLanne swims from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf while wearing handcuffs
Title: "Sports Features --- A Rare Swimming Feat" superimposed over Jack LaLanne, fitness guru, swimming accompanied by men in rowboats / VS LaLanne shows off muscles and physique / LS Alcatraz prison / MS sign on Alcatraz "Warning Keep...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Track and field intercollegiate championships at Franklin Field in Philadelphia
Title card: "West Rules Track!" / A crowd of thousands in white summer attire / Scenes of start of 110-meter high hurdles race won by Phil Good / Pole vaulters Keith Brown and Frank Pierce / A crowd in the grandstands (dark winter...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Two American records are set in discus and javelin at women's Olympic track and field trials
Title "U.S. Women's Track and Field Trials" superimposed over hurdles / Earlene Brown, shotput and discus thrower from Los Angeles, hurling discus / CU Brown and her baby / CU Brown playing piano / CU Brown balancing 8 lb. shot / Low...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pittsburgh Pirates spring training with Bing Crosby in San Bernardino, CA; NY Giants training in Phoenix, AZ, March 1952
Title card: "Bing Crosby Looks in On Pirates" superimposed over drawing of baseball / MS singer/actor Bing Crosby, vice president of the Pittsburgh Pirates, bats at spring training / row of players catching his bunts / back view of...
Hearst Metrotone News
Men flip levers inside the Hoover Dam control room.
Men flip levers inside the Hoover Dam control room.
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Penn Relays track meet at Franklin Field in Philadelphia
Title card: "Flying feet! New champions win laurels in Classic Penn Relay Carnival" / runners racing past camera / shot of runner's legs as they race on wet, muddy track / runners jumping over fence into water obstacle in steeple chase /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Show jumping at 1956 Olympic equestrian event in Stockholm, Sweden
Title: "Gran Prix Jumping -- Equestrian Olympics End" superimposed over horse jumping over barriers / LS horse jumping over barrier / camera follows horse around track as it jumps over barriers knocking some poles down / camera follows...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Egyptian electrocuted trying to jump onto London Paris train
CLEAN : Egyptian electrocuted trying to jump onto London Paris train
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Female gymnasts perform on rings and do rhythmic gymnastics routine on field in Italian arena
Women on field holding flags, flag in front may be Yugoslavian with French flag next to it; behind them first, second and third place winning athletes standing on platforms, empty stands in bg / CU woman in profile / women sitting on...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Boy named Harold Barnes performing stunts on tightrope in Miami
Young Harold Barnes walking on tightrope outdoors / two shots of Barnes walking on tightrope in kneeling posture / Barnes grabbing tightrope and swinging around / Barnes bouncing on tightrope in sitting posture and doing backflip / shot...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Ballerinas help train Oklahoma City University Basketball team with ballet moves, 1954
Title: "On Their Toes -- Collegiate Hoopsters Get Training Lift" superimposed over Oklahoma City University basketball team in training / VS law library tower / VS university team training on basketball court / VS ballerina makes jump...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Team from Norwalk, CT beats Monongahela, PA 4-3 and wins the Little League World Series
Title: "Baseball - World Series Junior Size" superimposed over game under way / PAN different teams parading / MS Canadian club parade / VS CU Connie Mack, retired Manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, in dugout with 2 Pennsylvania...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Track and Field events in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland
Title card: "Olympics -- Action-Packed Competition" / Intertitle: "Helsinki -- Records Fall in Track & Field" superimposed over high angle of men running track / LS crowds in stadium and 100 meter dash athletes on their marks / MS man...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Show Jumping World Championship in Aachen, West Germany
Title: "In Germany -- World Jumping Championship" superimposed over horse and rider taking jump / Pan course and grandstand / flags from United Kingdom, Italy, Germany and France flying / LS man on course waves flag to start competition...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Tony Trabert wins US National Men's Singles Championship in tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, NY
Title "Tony Trabert, New tennis sensation" superimposed over close shot of Trabert holding tennis racket in front of his face while posing for photo opportunity, tilt down to Trabert demonstrating his grip on handle of racket / crowd in...
British Movietone
WINTER OLYMPICS OPEN
The opening ceremony of the Sixth Winter Olympic Games was performed by Princess Ragnhild, daughter of Crown Prince Olav. Thirty nations (a record) marched in the procession and the hoisting of the Olympic Flag was followed by the...
British Movietone
SPORTING HIGHLIGHTS OF 1975- COLOUR
Movietone looks back at some of the Sporting events it has covered during 1975. ® ® The rough tough driving of the Round Britain Rally and the British Grand Prix that was ended by a sudden downpour of rain. ® ® West Ham win the FA...
Sky News
The Loony Dook swim in Scotland
CLEAN: Shows exterior shots swimmers in costumes including person dressed as Buzz Lightyear jumping around in the water and posing for photos. Edinburgh's Hogmanay festivities continue with The Loony Dook, an annual swim in the freezing...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Rookie firefighters train in New York
Title card: "Fire rookies learn to be smoke-eaters!" / A group of men with some wearing smoke masks / Smoke pours from a building and an elevated view of men entering the structure / The men carry a body from the edifice and they attend...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Workers prepare military bonus bond checks for distribution
Title card : "Paying the Bonus" over black, then superimposed of women at table stacking papers / MS EXT Veterans Administration with cars parked out front / CU plaque that reads "Veterans Administration" / MS roomful of female and male...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Jesse Owens at 1936 Olympics
Countdown / Sportfolio intro sequence / card: "place commercial here" / WS full stadium / Olympic flags / Jesse Owens' long jump / Owens and others run / Owens wins / CU Owens / Sportfolio end sequence
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
The boundary line between East and West Berlin, with civilians and warning signs
WS Sign reads "You are leaving the American sector" repeated in Russian, German, and French / MS same sign with civilians mainly children and police standing on street corner around sign, downed tree nearby, children running and walking...