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Men working inside the Vultee aircraft factory in Downey, California.

Men working inside a factory in Downey, California. Interior of the airplane factory. Men engaged in construction of different parts of the airplanes. Semi completed airplanes in the factory. Men working to complete the planes. An airplane takes off.

Location: Downey California USA
Date: 1940, July 1
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046145
American aircraft production workers examine a German Messerschmidt 110 aircraft in Downey, California.

A Nazi German Messerschmitt Bf 110, (Me 110) in a hangar of the Vultee aircraft manufacturing company in Downey, California, early in World War 2, and before America's entrance into the war. The aircraft (possibly captured by the British?) is seen going through inspection by workers at the Vultee plant. There are some bullet holes and signs of damage in the captured plane. Men in the cockpit of the plane inspect it. Other men watch.

Location: Downey California USA
Date: 1941, April 8
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028542
Sheriff's deputies and federal agents from Bureau of Prohibition raid an illegal liquor still in Downey, California.

A factory site. Signboard reads 'Kearn Tin Insulation Work' outside the factory. A man stacks tin containers. Two men pull a drum over a plank. Sheriff's men arrive at the site firing handguns (dramatization). Holes in window panes due to firing. Three men from factory come out with their hands-up. Federal prohibition agents and local law enforcement pull down tin siding around the factory. They break hose pipes and smash other machinery used in the illegal liquor still. An agent punctures holes in the piled tin containers filled with bootleg moonshine. Liquor gushes from the punctured tins

Location: Downey California USA
Date: 1932, October 24
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023913
Military Aircraft being produced by Vultee and Lockheed Aircraft companies during World War II

Film begins showing steel framework for a new war plant under construction during World War 2. Next, workers are seen painting aircraft parts at the Vultee aircraft plant in Downey California. A crane at the plant moves an aircraft tail section to mate with the forward fuselage of an airplane. Cranes move wing segments through the plant. Workers, including a woman, lower a radial engine into place at the front of a BT-13 Valiant training airplane. A line of such aircraft is seen behind the one the camera is focused on. Scene shifts to the Lockheed aircraft plant in Burbank, California, where bodies of Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra passenger planes are seen covering the factory floor. A glimpse of Lockheed B-24 Liberator bombers in an assembly line next to men working engines of a partially assembled Electra 14 aircraft. Lockheed P-38 lightning fighter planes being assembled at another part of the plant. A P-38 taxis past a line of parked Lockheed Hudson light bombers and takes off on a test flight. View from below of gleaming aluminum P-38 climbing out. Aerial view from above of P-38 flying over land near some mountains.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031871
Workers at Vultee Plant assembles Vultee BT-13 planes in Downey CA.

Workers at Vultee Plant assemble various parts of Vultee BT-13 planes in Downey CA. Assembly of wings can be seen. Workers work at main frame of plane and attach it to motored rotor blades. A completed BT-13 exits the assembly line out in open for testing.June 1941.

Location: Downey California USA
Date: 1941, June
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028730
City views of San Francisco; United Nations Conference on International Organization held in San Francisco, California (WW2)

A documentary on The United Nations Conference on International Organization that continued from April 25, 1945 to June 26, 1945 in San Francisco. A plane in flight and ships are seen in San Francisco Bay. 1940s San Francisco city views: Aerial views of Golden Gate Bridge. People on streets on San Francisco, with streetcars, buildings, pedestrians, and mid 1940's cars seen. Aircraft parked at a USAF Base as delegates from 50 countries arrive. Delegates like Jan Christian Smuts from South Africa, Vyacheslav Molotov from Russia, U.S. secretary of State Edward Stettinius arrive in San Francisco. Delegates register for the conference. United States flag on a building. Interior of the War Memorial Opera House serving as the initial meeting hall. Delegates seated. U.S. President Harry S. Truman addressing the general assembly remotely, as delegates listen through radio speakers in the opera house. Narrator recalls words of Franklin Roosevelt and recorded audio of Roosevelt is heard where he urges continuation of the work first begun by the defunct League of Nations. View of various working committees and smaller groups of the organization meeting during the Spring of 1945. Representatives debate and review concepts initiated at the Dumbarton Oaks conference in Washington DC in 1944 during World War II. Delegates addressing those assembled and signing documents that create the United Nations.

Location: San Francisco California USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 7 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032536
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