Burlesque dancer Sally Rand (Hattie Helen Gould Beck) and her dance troupe perform the Bubble Dance at the San Diego Expo (the California Pacific International Exposition) in Balboa Park in 1935. Ms. Rand and her dancers perform at a fountain of the Plaza del Pacifico, with the California State Building in the background (which became the San Diego Automotive Museum in 1988)
A film titled: 'Fighter Photo-Eyes of the Fleet' on the importance of photographic reconnaissance. A board reads: "Composite Squadron Sixty One - VC-61" outside a building of Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, United States. F9F Panther aircraft in formation fly by. A jeep arrives. A pilot gets off the jeep. The pilot arrives near the building. Men load cameras in an airplane. Interior of an office. Officers seated at a desk in the office. The pilot shakes hands with the officers. They look at a model of an aircraft. The pilot walks with his luggage. A jeep arrives near him. He shakes hands with the man driving the jeep and talks to him. He sits in the jeep. The jeep drive away. Buildings along the sides of a street. The jeep comes to a halt and the man gets off. Man enters building with sign "BOQ Office". Inside a man loads film into a camera. The man seated with other crew members inside a building. An officer instructs them on aerial reconnaissance photography techniques in the classroom. View of three Republic F9F Panther aircraft in formation flight overhead. The man looks at the aircraft. He writes a formula and explains to the crew.
View of The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge (San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco, CA, United States) over San Francisco Bay at the Pacific Ocean. Ceremonies where the bridge was opened to general traffic after completion of construction in 1936. California Governor, Frank Finley Merriam, uses a blowtorch to cut a chain, officially opening the bridge to vehicle traffic. Cars are seen massed, ready to commence the crossing. Cars pass through lane dividers and drive on the bridge. View of the towers and suspension cables from a car passing underneath. Buildings seen from the bridge. Traffic on the bridge. (From a 1961 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.)
A film about training of United States Marines in San Diego, California. Gruman F3F aircraft lined up on a field. Technicians turn propellers of the aircraft. A crew members fuels an aircraft. Recruit pilots lined up on the field. A pilot gets into cockpit of an aircraft. Aircraft in formation flight over an open sea off San Diego. An F3F aircraft parked on the flight deck of a capital ship. Marines march and line up on the deck of a capital ship.
The Spirit of St. Louis aircraft in flight over San Diego in California. View of San Diego from monplane piloted by Captain Charles Lindbergh. The aircraft in flight overhead. The air speed indicator, clock and compass of the aircraft. The monoplane in flight.
Loading activities aboard the United States aircraft carrier Bataan in San Diego, California. Aircraft carrier Bataan moored to the dock with cars parked in the foreground. Marines embark onto the carrier. United States F-84 aircraft being hoisted aboard. F-84 on the deck of the carrier. A band plays on the deck of the carrier. Bataan gets underway. Men at the bow of the ship. A tug pushes the stern of the Bataan around. City of San Diego in the background.
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