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San Francisco Bay and city, Golden Gate Bridge, and Alcatraz Island, from the Marin Headlands

Views of San Francisco, California from the Marin Headlands. A ship underway on the San Francisco Bay and passes beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. City view in the background from the bridge, and the San Francisco Peninsula overall. The Transamerica Tower clearly visible. Alcatraz Island in the middle of the Bay.

Date: 1976, November
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031130
Views of California's San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco from a cruise ship promotion

Promotional documentary titled 'By The Way of Panama - California The Golden'. Describes views of California to be seen on a cruise from New York, via Panama. The sea shores of California with rocks and sand. A passenger ship sailing in the harbor of San Diego. Views of the San Diego Harbor. The ship, called the "Pennsylvania" reaches harbor of Los Angeles. The buildings and streets of the city of Los Angeles. A Hollywood film studio with shooting underway. Luxury homes of LA. The ship moves on to San Francisco. The harbor of San Francisco including Alcatraz Island in background. Views of the surroundings from a high ridge in San Francisco.

Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035925
Scenes from high building in San Francisco. Tops of buildings; Golden Gate Bridge; Alcatraz; North beach, ocean liner

Numerous views over the city of San Francisco, California. Some of them are taken from moving elevators in high rise buildings. Camera pans over various parts of the city, from high point overlooking almost everything. Camera pans over North Beach area. An ocean liner is seen in water behind the Coit Tower. The landmark Golden Gate bridge and hills in the distance. A singular tall building looms above much lower buildings below. Alcatraz Island is seen in water behind it. Many and varied views of building roof tops. Cars seen moving on streets below some tall buildings. Some tall buildings are under construction. Golden Gate bridge is backdrop to many scenes. Final scene show buildings viewed from a descending elevator.

Date: 1968, April 5
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054794
USS Ranger underway in San Francisco Bay in northern California, United States.

USS Ranger underway in San Francisco Bay in northern California, United States. Alcatraz Island in the background. Port beam view of the ship underway with San Francisco framed in the background showing the city skyline. Port bow view of the ship passing under Oakland Bay Bridge.

Date: 1966, August 25
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051005
Plan for Peace, 1947. Public information film about U.S. Army Universal Military Training Project

Firing of a V-2 rocket from White Sands, New Mexico. An XP-84 jet aircraft on a test flight in California. Scenes of devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An atomic bomb test conducted in Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Large smoke cloud rises. Americans expressing disgust with war and confidence in ability to protect against it in future. Newspaper headline about Armistice ending World War I on November 11, 1918. Victory parade in New York City. Close up view of Adolf Hitler as he speaks forcefully to a German audience. V2 rocket being launched in Germany. German Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet rocket plane in flight. Map depicting uranium deposits world wide. An XB-36 bomber in flight with landing gear extended. A huge formation of various warplanes in flight, high overhead. A wartime tank assembly plant. American army troops on parade. A United Nations meeting in session. Peaceful scenes of American soldiers in Hawaii before World War II in the Pacific. Hawaiian Hula dancers. Japanese carrier-based Aichi D3A1 dive bomber in flight during attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Bombed U.S. warships and facilities in Pearl Harbor. American Army officer and civilian discussing wisdom of maintaing large standing army. Army recruits are seen in the U.S. Army Universal Military Training Experimental Unit at Fort Knox, in 1947. They are seen in quarters, studying; taking part in sports (baseball); and attending religious services in a base chapel. Several trainees in a field tent, working with numerous tape decks in some kind of military communications activity.

Date: 1947
Duration: 4 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034918
A basketball match between UCLA and Long Island University teams in New York

A basketball match between UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and Long Island University in New York. A huge crowd in the spectator area watches the match. The spectators cheer the players. The match ends in a deadlock. The UCLA Cagers then score twice and win, 66 to 64 of Long Island University team.

Date: 1947, December 30
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041346