Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
DO NOT USE Opening titles and still photo heavyweight boxing champion JOE LOUIS.
JOE LOUIS losing to EZZARD CHARLES in 1950.
HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS playing against an unspecified basketball team.
JOHN COBB and his Loch Ness speedboat disaster.
DO NOT USE 1952 Olympics
Teen tennis sensation MAUREEN CONNOLLY becoming US champion.
DO NOT USE Still photo of people watching TV.
Detroit Lions losing the football championship to Cleveland.
EMMETT ASHFORD, the first black umpire in baseball rehearsing calls for the camera.
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers finally beating the New York Yankees for the championship.
High jump athlete JOHN THOMAS historically clearing the 7' mark.
1956 Yankee right hand pitcher DON LARSEN pitching the first perfect game since 1922.
ALTHEA GIBSON winning Wimbledon, being congratulated by QUEEN ELIZABETH.
DONALD CAMBELL breaking the world speedboat record... twice.
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.
1951 New York Giants winning the pennant after BOBBY THOMPSON's 9th inning homer. Crowd cheering.
Wacky sports montage (mostly accidents, bloopers): horse racing, water & snow skiing, rodeo, motocross, etc.