Day view of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (or San Francisco Bay Bridge) in San Francisco. Mountains in the background. Streets of San Francisco at night. Vehicle traffic at night. Colored fountains at Federal Theatre in Treasure Island.
Delegates arrive in San Francisco for United Nations Conference for World Organization in San Francisco, California. U.S. President Truman arrives by airplane at the conference and is met by representatives from U.S. delegation including Stettinius. Delegates from other countries are also present and greet the President including Jan Smuts of South Africa and William Lloyd Mackenzie King of Canada. Views of presidential motorcade traveling through streets of San Francisco in a parade-like environment, with crowds lining the sidewalks and cheering. Delegates sign the United Nations Charter during the conference. First to sign is Dr. Wellington Koo from China, signing with a traditional Chinese brush. Also shown signing is Gromyko from the Soviet Union, Lord Halifax from Great Britain, and the delegation from France led by acting delegation chairman Joseph Paul-Boncour. Next is Edward Stettinius and Senator Tom Connally, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Commander Harold Stassen, from the United States. U.S. President Harry S. Truman addresses the general assembly. Representatives of different nations like Lord Halifax of Great Britain, Mackenzie King of Canada, Jan Christian Smuts of South Africa, Andrei Gromyko of Russia and Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru of India can be seen. Flashback to President Franklin D Roosevelt, shortly before his death, addressing Congress about the coming San Francisco Conference. Roosevelt speaks, expressing his hope that Congress and the American People would "accept the results of this conference as the beginning of a permanent structure of peace, upon which we can begin to build, under God, that better world in which our children and grandchildren -- yours and mine - children and grandchildren of the whole world -- must live and can live."
Animated map shows Houses of Refuge on Florida Atlantic coast, and Coast Guard Stations along the Gulf coast. View of a hurricane on the Gulf coast. Coast Guard Station personnel distributing food to hurricane victims. A victim receiving medical care. Scene shifts to California coast where Coast Guard Stations are found at San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and on the Northwest coast leading up to Puget Sound and Seattle in Washington state. Scene shifts again, to the Great Lakes where many Coast Guard Stations are shown on map, most of them along Lake Michigan. A station is indicated at the Great Falls of the Ohio River in Kentucky.
The city of San Francisco, California. Cable car 57 with label "Van Ness Ave., California & Market Streets" moves along the street. The cable car driven up a slope. Cars pass by the trolley. The trolley moves up a sloping road. Cars and a taxi pass by. Tracks on the crowded street. A truck passes by. Trees on hills in the San Francisco Bay area at the end of the street.
Workmen wearing hard hats rig catwalks for the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. The first footways being laid between the towers of the huge new Golden Gate Bridge rising 750 feet above San Francisco Bay.
Spun cables for Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. Thread-like supports spun from tower to tower of the gigantic bridge as the job of completing the structure proceeds on schedule. Views of the partially completed Golden Gate Bridge over San Francisco Bay. Crewmen aboard an airship. A U.S. Army blimp airship floats in the sky over the Golden Gate Bridge during its construction. Views of cockpit control area inside blimp; interior view of blimp control mechanisms and blimp pilot at work. Aerial views of blimp near Golden Gate Bridge.
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