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Americas Newsreel 1950s Iconic Stories 1
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keywords: Pro Baseball, New York Yankees, Baseball Great Babe Ruth, Baseball Great Lou Gehrig, Sea Disasters, the French luxury liner SS Normandie, SS Morro Castle, the Flying Enterprise, SS Andrea Doria and MS Stockholm, Early Aviation, Pilot Douglas Corrigan, Curtiss Robin model J-1 Plane, Wrong Way Corrigan
Synopsis: aseball Greats Babe Ruth And Lou Gehrig, Famous Sea Disasters Of The 20th Century, Wrong Way Corrigan Enters History...(read more)
- Date: 1950's
- Duration: 00:08:13
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, World Seas
Baseball Greats Babe Ruth And Lou Gehrig
Highlights of the baseball careers of New York Yankee players Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Footage contains a team shot of the 1927 Yankees, and scenes of both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in their prime and at the end of their playing years. Scenes of Yankee Stadium. Baseball Great Lou Gehrig at the end of his baseball career in 1939.
Babe Ruth comes out of the dug out, hits a home run off pitcher Walter Johnson in an old timers game and runs the bases to the cheers of thousands of his fans. Babe Ruth with a group of kids. CU image of Babe Ruth as he signs autographs. Babe Ruth out of uniform in a leisure suit at Yankee Stadium.
Famous Sea Disasters Of The 20th Century
The French luxury liner SS Normandie or Normandy sailing into New York City harbor in May 1939. The fire and sinking of the SS Normandy or Normandie docked in New York City harbor in 1942.
The blaze aboard the SS Morro Castle that caught fire off the East Coast of the United States on September 8, 1934 while en route from Havana to New York City. 137 passengers and crew members perish.
The sinking of the tramp steamer, The Flying Enterprise in very high seas in January 1952 after a tow line parted just 45-miles from Falmouth England. Includes a shot of the Enterprise's captain, Henrik Kurt Carlsen.
On July 25, 1956 while the the SS Andrea Doria was approaching the coast of Nantucket Massachusetts bound for New York City the eastbound MS Stockholm collided with it. 1,660 passengers and crew were rescued and survived, 46 people died with the ship as a consequence of the collision. The evacuated luxury liner capsized and sank the following morning.
Wrong Way Corrigan Enters History
The story of Douglas Corrigan, better known as Wrong Way Corrigan, the aviator who left Brooklyn New York City with a supposed destination of Long Beach CA, but lands in Dublin Ireland instead. Wrong Way Corrigan taking off in his Curtiss Robin model J-1 plane on July 17, 1938 from Floyd Bennet Field, New York City's first municipal airport.
Ship entering New York City Harbor with Statue of Liberty in background; Douglas Corrigan onboard ship returning from Ireland. Scenes include a New York City ticker-tape parade for Corrigan that boasted a higher attendance than that for famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Recruitment short for the Marine Corps follows this story.
