Reel
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
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Audio:
492889_1_1
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1950
B/W
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_2
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1950
B/W
DO NOT USE Opening titles and still photo heavyweight boxing champion JOE LOUIS.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_3
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1950
B/W
JOE LOUIS losing to EZZARD CHARLES in 1950.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_4
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1950
B/W
HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS playing against an unspecified basketball team.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_5
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1952
B/W
JOHN COBB and his Loch Ness speedboat disaster.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_6
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1952
B/W
DO NOT USE 1952 Olympics
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_7
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1951
B/W
Teen tennis sensation MAUREEN CONNOLLY becoming US champion.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_8
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1950
B/W
DO NOT USE Still photo of people watching TV.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_9
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1950
B/W
Detroit Lions losing the football championship to Cleveland.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_10
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1950
B/W
EMMETT ASHFORD, the first black umpire in baseball rehearsing calls for the camera.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_11
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1955
B/W
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers finally beating the New York Yankees for the championship.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_12
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1956
B/W
High jump athlete JOHN THOMAS historically clearing the 7' mark.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_13
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1956
B/W
1956 Yankee right hand pitcher DON LARSEN pitching the first perfect game since 1922.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_14
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1957
B/W
ALTHEA GIBSON winning Wimbledon, being congratulated by QUEEN ELIZABETH.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_15
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1959
B/W
DONALD CAMBELL breaking the world speedboat record... twice.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_16
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1950
B/W
CU's & MS's of women firing handguns @ a target range; MS of a women executing self-defense move. (women's rights, gender roles MS's of a female circus performer taming lions. TLS's of a female matador.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_17
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1951
B/W
1951 New York Giants winning the pennant after BOBBY THOMPSON's 9th inning homer. Crowd cheering.
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Clip#:
Audio:
492889_1_18
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1950
B/W
Wacky sports montage (mostly accidents, bloopers): horse racing, water & snow skiing, rodeo, motocross, etc.