Closeup of a fuel truck at Monarch Aviation company, San Francisco, California, containing Phillips Petroleum 100 octane aviation gasoline. Views from rear of an airplane as it flies over local terrain showing hills, mountains, buildings, residential areas. Farms, grasslands and a river flows through the area, are also seen.
USS Coral Sea (CV-43) returns to San Francisco from the Vietnam War. Sailors aboard USS Coral Sea. A crowd cheers on a dock. Relatives and friends welcome the crew members of USS Coral Sea and greet them as they arrive. A sailor kisses a woman after disembarking.
Point of view aerial views of San Francisco harbor through passenger airplane window. Fishing boats anchored in harbor. POV view of San Francisco from ship. Chinatown in San Francisco. Cable car moved on turntable in front of The Owl Drug Co. Point of view shot going down hill in San Francisco in cable car. POV looking out front of passenger bus going over the Golden Gate Bridge. Greyhound bus emerging from tunnel. Greyhound passenger bus driving on U.S. 101 on the 'Redwood Highway' Couple stares upwards at giant redwoods. The 'World Famous Tree House' in Piercy, California.
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.
POV Views from rear of vehicle traveling over highway in San Francisco, California. A volkswagen Bug passes on the right. Other roads and traffic in background. Storage tank in distance. Scene shifts to looking forward, as vehicle ascends upward toward Bay Bridge. A sign on building reads: "Diamond National." A ship docked off to left, below. View of Golden Gate Bridge, with upper part obscured by mist. View from vehicle driving in traffic on roadway of Bay Bridge, as cars and trucks pass to the left.
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."
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