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San Francisco California USA 1956 stock footage and images

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Views of California's San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco from a cruise ship promotion

Promotional documentary titled 'By The Way of Panama - California The Golden'. Describes views of California to be seen on a cruise from New York, via Panama. The sea shores of California with rocks and sand. A passenger ship sailing in the harbor of San Diego. Views of the San Diego Harbor. The ship, called the "Pennsylvania" reaches harbor of Los Angeles. The buildings and streets of the city of Los Angeles. A Hollywood film studio with shooting underway. Luxury homes of LA. The ship moves on to San Francisco. The harbor of San Francisco including Alcatraz Island in background. Views of the surroundings from a high ridge in San Francisco.

Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035925
Dwight D Eisenhower gets nominated for the Republican candidate for Presidential campaign in San Francisco, California.

The Republican National Convention in San Francisco, California. Huge crowd greets President Dwight D Eisenhower and his wife as they arrive at their hotel. President Eisenhower gets nominated for standard bearer for the Republican Party in the Presidential Campaign. Demonstrations on the floor of the Cow Palace include a dancing Chinese dragon. Crowd with banners in hand. Former President Herbert Hoover speaks over the microphone. Former Governor Dewey also appears at the podium. Congressman announces the name of Dwight D Eisenhower as the Republican candidate for Presidential campaign.

Date: 1956, August 23
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064653
Hiroshima Hibakusha women depart for Japan after receiving plastic surgery treatment in the United States

The “Hiroshima Maidens”, a group of 25 Japanese women who were school age girls when they were seriously disfigured from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (victims are known as Hibakusha in Japan), depart San Francisco International Airport after receiving plastic surgery treatment in the United States. The Hiroshima Maidens boarding a passenger plane bound for Japan at San Francisco International Airport (San Francisco, CA 94128, United States). Japanese Americans wave at departing Hiroshima Maidens from Gates 32 and 33. Hiroshima Maidens waving at people from the tarmac. A Japanese woman waving. Hiroshima Maidens board a Pan American Airways (PAA) DC-7 “Clipper Fortuna” (N742PA) plane bound for Japan. The girls embark on the aircraft with their baggage.

Date: 1956, November 8
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064660
U.S. Army motor transport convoy in Oakland and San Francisco after Transcontinental Motor Convoy trip across America in 1919

U.S. Army trucks of the 1919 motor transport convoy drive past a moving trolley car on a street in Oakland, California. Spectators gather along side of street at ferry slip to watch as convoy trucks board a ferry boat for trip to San Francisco. Several men watch from upper deck of the ferry. A boy with a bicycle watches from beside a fence. View from upper deck of the ferry boat, of trucks driving aboard. A line of civilian cars sits to the side as the army vehicles drive aboard. View from the ferry boat underway in San Francisco harbor. Next, the convoy is seen driving along street in San Francisco, on September 7, 1919. The Mayor of San Francisco, James Rolph Jr., conversing with officers of the convoy, as they stand on a flag wrapped stand during a formal greeting ceremony. More views of convoy trucks in the city and lined up on hill overlooking San Francisco Bay.

Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025562
1920 San Francisco CA Democratic Party National Convention, James M. Cox and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) campaigning as Democratic Party President and Vice President

Franklin Delano Roosevelt walking with James M. Cox, the Democratic Presidential candidate for the 1920 election. Supporters shake hands with the Roosevelt and Cox. 1920 Democratic Party National Convention in San Francisco. Signs say “Philippines”, “Michigan”, “District of Columbia”, “Ohio”, “Missouri”, and other US states and territories in the 1920 Democratic Party National Convention in San Francisco, California. Female Democrat supporter enthusiastically raise her arms. The woman political activist cheering at the Democratic Party National Convention in San Francisco, California. Signs with the name of US states and territories at the democrat National Convention. Franklin D. Roosevelt give speeches and smiles as he campaigns as the democratic Vice President candidate for the 1920 United States election. Democrat supporters’ parade in San Francisco showing their support for James M. Cox. A scene from a Marion, Ohio parade supporting James M. Cox and Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaigning for 1920 election. Brass band playing. Franklin D. Roosevelt and James M. Cox wave at supporters. Women, wearing hats and white dresses, and white sashes with word "Marion" on them marching in support for the democratic Party. Franklin D. Roosevelt and James M. Cox smile and wave at supporters. Eleanor Roosevelt and her children with pet dog, a German Shepherd, at Hyde Park. Eleanor Roosevelt smiles. Crowded Democratic Party campaign before 1920 Presidential election. Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks to crowd, campaigning for the Democrat Party. Democratic supporters cheer. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in car. Franklin D. Roosevelt takes his hat off as greeting, a man with roses in car with Roosevelt. Roosevelt greets his mother and goes inside their house, the Springwood estate at Hyde Park (4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538, United States). Roosevelt speaks to the people of his hometown, Hyde Park New York. Franklin D. Roosevelt shakes hands with Hyde Park, New York residents. Franklin D. Roosevelt with wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. Franklin D. Roosevelt with his children.

Date: 1920, July 6
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079075
Functioning of walkie talkie being explained to the doctors and the nurses at a hospital in San Francisco.

The use of walkie talkie hand held two way radios at a hospital in San Francisco, California. A man explains the functioning of the walkie talkie radios to the doctors and the nurses. Operator seated at the switch board. A doctor receives a reporting signal from the early model pager, via a beep, and can hear information from the switchboard operator and respond. A mother hears the wails of her new born baby through the walkie talkie as it serves the role of early baby monitor.

Date: 1956, May 21
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055719