A house creeps downside in Oakland, California, triggered by loose soil and erosion. People look on the house. House slips down toward street below. A small board reads "Emergency No Parking". Owner of the house takes his possessions out of the house. Scene of broken steps of the house.
An all female baseball game in Oakland, California. Teams of young women from Niles and Oakland play a baseball game in Oakland, California. Niles defeats Oakland 27-4.
A newspaper report titled 'The Police and The People'. Residential areas of Oakland, California. Liquor shops in the city. African American men outside the liquor stores. Policeman of the Oakland Police Department patrols on the city streets in his car. Views of various buildings and neighborhoods of Oakland as seen from moving car. The Oakland Police Chief, George Hart, speaks in his office.
Major catastophe events of the year 1952. Views of destruction on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after American Airlines flight 6780, a Convair 240, crashed into a house at Williamson and South Streets on January 22, 1952. Burned wreckage and devastation seen at the crash site in Elizabeth following the crash and subsequent explosions damaging or destroying multipole houses in the 600 block of Williamson Street. In the first few seconds of the clip, the Battin High School for Girls is seen in the background. The school was adjacent to the crash but not hit. Narrator also describes the crash of an Army transport plane in California which killed 86 soldiers, but no images of that crash are shown. Next scenes shift to England, on September 6, 1952, as a de Havilland DH.110 jet aircraft, piloted by John Derry, explodes in midair after achieving Mach 1 and then beginning a left bank and climb at 450 knots during the 1952 Farnborough Airshow. Spectators at the British air show are seen on the ground in the area below the explosion and where debris rained down on the crowd causing deaths and injuries. Engines from the blown-up DH.110 plane (prototype, ID WG236) are seen hurtling through the sky toward Observation Hill immediately after the mid-air explosion. Scenes show crowd working to tend to the wounded and shocked families and children crying.
View of San Francisco skyline as seen from across bay in the City of Oakland, California. Buses and heavy vehicle traffic on the streets of Oakland. Montage shows scenes in Oakland, including an orchestra band playing and various sports such as ice hockey and baseball. Narrator describes contrast of wealthy areas of city with poor areas of city. African American citizens along streets and sidewalks and near apartments and homes. Black woman walking with child. Black American children play. Black American men on streets. Still images of African American citizens in Oakland during World War II.
Sewers in the back yards of a residential area in Oakland, California. View of Police car driving on road, as seen from another moving car. Congressman Ron Dellums speaks in his office about police brutality on African Americans during 1960s. View of Black Panther Party demonstration outside the Alameda County Court House circa 1968, with African American men and women participating. marching, protesting, and pumping their fists in the air ("black power" symbol). Former Oakland Police Chief Charles Gain speaks in his office. Meeting between Oakland Police Department and civilians. Deputy Chief Thomas Donohue speaks.
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