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Boats and planes search for debris from Linea Aeropostal Venezolana airplane crash in New Jersey which killed 74
Title cars: "74 Lives Lost…Venezuelan Airliner Crashes" / LS airplanes over Idlewild Airport (later known as John F. Kennedy Intl. Airport) / airplane flying overhead / CU plane propeller on plane in air / special effect explosion...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
New York Giants defeat Cleveland Browns 37-34 in football game
Title: "Pro Season Ends - Giants Beats Browns In Real Thriller!" superimposed over game in progress / WS game under way / 1st quarter - Cleveland Browns pass by #14 Otto Graham, Quarterback, intercepted by New York Giants #16 Frank...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
French Prime Minister Pierre Mendes France gets vote of confidence for West Germany to enter NATO
Title card: "Paramount News Issue No 39" / title card: "France - the Zero Hour- Crucial Vote on Arms for Germany" / Prime Minister Pierre Mendes France in front of building, others behind him, photographers in fg / CU Mendes France /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
NY Yankees win charity baseball game against NY Giants in Yankee Stadium in NY City
Title card: "60,000 turn out to see Yanks beat Giants 7-3 in game sponsored by the Acting Mayor, Mr. McKee" / New York City acting mayor Joseph V McKee in stands throws out ball during charity game to benefit the Mayor's unemployment...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Cary Middlecoff wins golf's US Open in 1956
Title superimposed on a golfer putting, "Golf Drama in US Open - Middlecoff Wins" / VS the fairway framed by a large gallery, some spectators with periscopes, others seated / Peter Thomson tees off / Cary Middlecoff follows / WS the...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Sophie Tucker's Golden Jubilee celebration in New York benefits charities which help theatrical performers
Title "Sophie Tucker Honored - 50 years in Show Business" superimposed on Tucker standing with theatre owner Harry Brandt with a sculpted bust of her between them / A large heart with a painting of Tucker in the middle, "Sophie Tucker,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Babe Ruth's first game with Boston Braves in their home opener baseball game in Boston with NY Giants
Title card: "The Babe's Day!" / officials walking across field in Braves Field / players of both teams walking across field / Braves' owner Emil Fuchs on left and Ford Frick, National League president, in stands posing for photo...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Detroit Tigers play NY Giants in pre-season exhibition baseball game at Polo Grounds in NY City
Title card: "Detroit Tigers growl at Giant in Wind-up game!" / Giants manager Bill Terry on left shaking hands with Tigers manager Del Baker / Tigers player at plate striking out / Giants pitcher throwing pitch / two shots of Tigers...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Penn Relays college track meet at Franklin Field in Philadelphia
Title "Fast Stepping Youth" superimposed over runners racing / overhead wide shot of infield and runners racing on track / crowd in stands / close shot of starter John McHugh telling runners to take their marks / runners in starting...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Japan's Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako visit Ueno Zoo
Title card: "Emperor of Japan Visits Zoo" / royal cars driving into zoo / Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako greeted by officials by bowing, car to side / group walking between cages / royals looking over high railing / CU tiger behind...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Obituary for athlete Babe Didrikson of golf and Olympic track and field fame
Title Card: "Babe Didrikson Mourned - Greatest Woman Athlete" / CU smiling Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias / Babe in shorts walking toward camera / CU Babe after winning 1932 Olympic Javelin throw / Follow Babe hurling javelin to win...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Players for Brooklyn Dodgers major league baseball team model casual clothes during spring training in Miami Beach
Title card: "Spring and baseball - anything can happen" / player Duke Snider on left and pitcher Carl Erskine modeling hats they are wearing / two shots of players coming down steps from airplane at airport and walking across tarmac /...
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Women participate in war efforts during World Wars I and II in the US and the UK
[GHOC Episode V-02] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title card: "Women in War, Too" / [Daly City, CA] VS women at work during World War I: wheeling debris on rail cart, shoveling, throwing things into rail car / VS...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
The first full-scale atomic power plant is dedicated by Queen Elizabeth
Title card: "Historic Hour... World's first full-scale atomic power plant" / WS the nuclear power complex, with several large transformers / several stacked platforms outside the plant / Elizabeth descends a staircase behind large...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Schenectady, NY beats Colton, CA for Little League championship
Title "Baseball - Little League World Series" superimposed over teams on field, color guard stands in center / marching band and teams parade before crowds in stands / Schenectady team marching, front player carries sign shaped like...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Residents flee as French troops evacuate from Haiphong and Communist troops enter under terms of the Geneva Peace Settlement
Title: "Indo-China - Refugees Flee As Reds Enter Haiphong Port" superimposed over residents fleeing to Saigon (Dept. of Defense) / French Pictorial Services: VS CU French troops evacuating / PAN deserted street / another deserted street...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
After his 1953 death, a look at Joseph Stalin's tenure as leader of the Soviet Union
[GHOC Episode 0-07] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title: "Stalin Dies" with photo of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin / [1930s, Moscow] VS Stalin / VS Soviet Army marches in Red Square; Stalin and officials on the Lenin...
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1951 baseball game between US All-Star team and the Yomiuri Giants at Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo
WS US All-Stars baseball player runs to first and second base / WS player was out / PAN from changing teams to grandstand full of spectators / WS game in action / MS pitcher throwing ball / MS home base / VS US team player running bases...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
New York Yankees claim victory over Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1947 World Series
Title card: "Baseball" over EXT Yankee Stadium / MS Babe Ruth walks past camera up to microphone / stopping and coughing, waving his hat, Cardinal Francis Spellman stands behind him / CU Ruth, with bowed head, speaks into mic / High shot...
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Comic boxing match in Hollywood between Jerry Lewis and heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano
Card: "Paramount News issue no 30" / title card: 'Battle of the Century,' Marciano vs Lewis" / announcer in boxing ring for national Muscular Dystrophy drive comic boxing match / audience watching, including children in wheelchairs / two...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Jackie Robinson hits home run in first game of the 1952 World Series at Ebbets Field
Title card: "World Series Special - Yankees Do It Again" over graphic of baseball / title "And Here's How it Happened - The Dodgers Miss Again" superimposed over player running to base / Ebbets Field stadium on street corner, crowd and...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Spring training in Sarasota, Bradenton, and Orlando, FL, with the Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Braves, and Washington Senators in March of 1953
Title card: "Spring Next Batter! -- Baseball Holds the Stage" superimposed of drawing of baseball / Boston Red Sox team runs out of bldg / Milwaukee Braves run out of bldg / Washington Senators run out of bldg / VS Red Sox swinging bats...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Los Angeles Sheriff's Rodeo with bareback, bronco, and brahma bull riding at the Los Angeles Coliseum
Title: "Los Angeles 'Hoss Opry' Draws 90,000!" superimposed over rider on bucking bronco / VS high angle riders parading around packed stadium / CU children watching rodeo / VS bareback bronco riding, bronco riding and brahma bull riding...
Hearst Metrotone News
Newlyweds leave the church as onlookers throw rice and confetti.
Newlyweds leave the church as onlookers throw rice and confetti.