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San Diego California USA 1932 stock footage and images

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Sailor Charles (Bud) Cowart is rescued after dangling from the airship, USS Akron, two thousand feet above ground

Original footage and supplemental reenactment of event that took place about a week earlier when the U.S. Navy Zeppelin, USS Akron (ZRS-4) attempted to dock for refueling at Camp Kearny, San Diego, California. In clips from that actual event, spectators watch as a hundred Navy ground crew sailors attempt to hold down the dirigible. But one of the Akron cable rings breaks and the sailors are unable to hold her. All let go of the lines except for three sailors, two of whom fell to their deaths. Scenes are shown of the remaining sailor, Bud Cowart of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, as he hangs on for more than an hour until the USS Akron crew pulls him through a port hole to safety aboard the air ship. Views shot about a week later show officers inside the Akron and Sailor Cowart aboard the airship.

Date: 1932, May 16
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046022
The film 'Meet The Fleet' shows Potter, Benson and Dan arriving as new recruits at the Naval Training Center in San Diego.

The film 'Meet The Fleet' shows young recruits at the Naval Training Center in San Diego, California. Opening scenes show the U.S. battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38). A Marine bugler, in dress blues,blows a call. He is followed by a Navy bosun's Mate who pipes the call, for all hands on deck. Sailors run to assemble on deck and stand inspection by ship's officers. Scene then shifts to the flag pole at the Naval Training Station for recruits, at San Diego, California, where the American flag is being raised. Recruits in white uniform stand saluting in the background. New young recruits arrive in a military truck. They get down from the vehicle with their baggage. A dramatization shows recruits looking around. They follow an officer. Potter from Kansas, wealthy Benson (actor George Reeves), and poor Dan introduce each other.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064963
Burlesque dancer Sally Rand performing the Bubble Dance with her troupe at the San Diego Expo of 1935-1936

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)

Date: 1935
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028558
Film Pot - No Way shows drug dealing of Marijuana and a man buying and getting away with Marijuana in San Diego, California.

Film "Pot - No Way' shows illegal drug dealing of Marijuana in San Diego, California. A man places marijuana on a piece of roll paper and rolls it. He lights a match and smokes a joint.Legs of a man.The man walks in a deserted street lane. He buys marijuana from another man and hides it behind the number plate of his car. A Mexico and U.S. border sign board reads 'United States Border Station, San Diego' and a warning sign not to bring drugs into the United States. A customs police officer speaks to the driver and checks the car. A number of other cars driving out after customs inspection at Mexican border.

Date: 1975
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064376
United States Marine Corps undergo maintenance and repair training at San Diego Base Camp in California.

United States Marine Corps undergoing training at U.S. Marine Corps base in San Diego, California. Modern Marines operate portable radars on field. The Radar can detect a soldier hiding in the woods. Young Marines walk in the courtyard of U.S. Marine Corps Base. Marines undergo maintenance and repair training at the San Diego Base. Officer takes a class. Marines work on individual equipment as part of their training. Officer inspects his students work. Marines building a radio receiver. They also learn to repair radio.

Date: 1967
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064392
Young Navy recruits enjoy a fishing trip during training at the Naval Training Center in San Diego, California.

Dramatization: Young U.S. Navy recruits in training at the Naval Training Center in San Diego, California. The recruits undergo various training exercises. Dramatization shows a group of recruits working as teams to climb a wall. A recruit runs through a semaphore training exercise and toward barracks. He reads from a paper and announces permission has been granted for the recruits to go fishing. The recruits in uniform on fishing boats at sea. New recruits joke around standing on the boat. Two recruits slip a fish down the shirt of a fellow recruit. A recruit (played by George Reeves - later "Superman") points to several Destroyers and mistakenly calls them Battleships. Another recruit points out a submarine. A commanding officer points out the view of North Island Naval Base, and the port and downtown area of San Diego. The recruits are fishing. An officer asks an enlisted man to pick up a blue tackle box and he picks up a yellow one instead.

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064966