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San Diego California USA 1946 stock footage and images

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Albert Einstein greeted by a large crowd at San Diego on arrival.

Cruiser comes into San Diego harbor. Stacks of cruiser emit smoke. Crowd waits at docks. Albert Einstein leaves cruiser with other people. Face of Einstein as he is greeted by crowd. Crowd gathered to hear Albert Einstein speech. Einstein speaking from the Spreckels Organ Pavilion (2125 Pan American Rd E, San Diego, CA 92101, United States) at Balboa Park in San Diego, California.

Date: 1930, December 31
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051975
Short lived homecoming of USS Valley Forge (CV-45) in San Diego, California, December 1, 1950.

Homecoming of the USS Valley Forge (CV-45) in San Diego, California. Wives of the sailors wave as USS prepares to tie up at quay wall. Mayor of San Diego Joshua H. Bean speaks. Consul of Sweden, Waldo Homburg speaks. Consul of Norway speaks. Flags of both those nations and State flag of California are seen. Vice Admiral Sprague speaks. Miss California stand with flowers and waves. Spectators in the background. A band plays. (Presence of the Scandinavian representatives may be related to the cooperation of USS Valley Forge and other U.S. Naval vessels, during production of the motion picture "Windjammer" about the voyage of the Norwegian training vessel, Christian Radich.) Note: Korean war demands required the USS Valley Forge to resupply and sail again on December 6, 1950.

Date: 1950, December 1
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047009
Famous attractions in San Diego and Los Angeles, California

A beach in California. Cars moving on highway - 101 Camino Real. Old Mission buildings and monuments in San Diego, California. Monks moving about one of the missions. A monk feeds white pigeons. Adobe home of General Jose Castro before restoration, at San Juan Batista. View in Los Angeles of Avila Adobe - Stockton's American headquarters during the Mexican-American war. People visiting the museum. La Casa de Estudillo in San Diego, also known as Ramona's Marriage Place after the reference in the popular Helen Hunt Jackson novel. A Mexican musician plays guitar outside the house. Agua Caliente resort in Mexico, over the border. Restaurant there with dancers and a band. Olvera Street market in Los Angeles for Mexican arts and crafts. A man and two women make Mexican foods.

Date: 1931
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035926
United States aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) damaged in Operation Crossroad "Test Able," risk in daily lives and discussion of radioactivity.

'Radioactive contamination' about the hazards posed by the sinking of a United States aircraft carrier and the methods to control radioactivity. United States Navy F6F-3 Hellcat aircraft taking off from United States aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. F6F-3 Hellcat firing rockets in air. Landing signal operator LSO using flags while guiding plane for landing on USS Independence. Kamikaze attacks at Tarawa. Anti aircraft guns on carrier cut down kamikaze planes as they attack. USS Independence flying USA flag at Tokyo Bay. Scene of surrender of Japanese at Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. Aerial view of atomic bomb blast at Bikini in 1946. The wrecked carrier Independence being towed away after it was used as a target for an atomic bomb test in 1946 as part of Operation Crossroads. Men at a construction site talk about contamination caused in sea water due to sinking of Independence containing radioactive waste. They comment, "she's all full of that radioactive poison" and with respect to eating fish in water near the ship, "would you eat fish again?" Two women dressed in furs, in a car, also discuss radioactivity. One woman says, "from what I've heard it's very dangerous. " View of 1940s car backing into oncoming traffic and almost causing an accident. An aerial view of atomic explosion at Bikini. Damaged USS Independence ship after TEST ABLE. Signs on board warn of radioactivity with words, "Keep Clear, Danger! Very Radio-Active" and "Radioactivity. Do not remain more than 2 hours." Men in small boat near USS Independence examine damage to the ship. Parts of the USS Independence being tested for radioactive contamination at the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory NRDL, Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, California. The USS Independence being sunk in 1951. View of Bikini atomic bomb blast within a bay surrounded by ships. Simulation shows the effect a similar blast would have on a coastal city as a radioactive cloud covers the city. Officers holding handkerchiefs to their mouths as they enter an office building from outside. Firemen climb ladders while putting out a large fire. A house wife working in a kitchen and responding to a pot boiling over on the stove burns her hand. A man slips on a bar of soap in the shower while singing. An officer honking at an oncoming car as he is run off the road. Woman driver dressed in furs exclaims to her friend about the bad driving of men. Officer just run off the road by woman driver exclaims, "Women !" with frustration. Aerial view of test nuclear explosion at Bikini Atoll.

Date: 1951
Duration: 8 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051356
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
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