Republican Presidential and Democratic Senator Primaries in California in 1964. U.S. Senator Barry Morris Goldwater emerges from a car and receives congratulations for being nominated for President in United States Republican Presidential Primary. Governor of New York, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, exits from a bus and meets delegates. Nelson Rockefeller addressees a large crowd as he loses the U.S. Republican Presidential Primary. Barry Goldwater speaks to a large crowd during the presidential campaign. People applaud and cheer for the nominees. Elevated aerial views of part of harbor and city of San Francisco California. Exterior views of the Cow Palace arena near San Francisco, California, which will be site of the Republican National Convention of 1964. Next scene shows Alan Cranston, California Senate Controller, casting vote in a ballot box for Democratic Senatorial Primary. Pierre Emil George Salinger, former Press Secretary, wins the Senatorial nomination in the Democratic party. He is greeted by his wife. He is congratulated by his supporters and party.
Ralph Boston jumps and betters his own American long jump record during California relays in California. Dyrol Burleson wins over Tom O'hara in a race.
Film begins showing view from an airplane flying over a forest fire burning in the Los Padres National forest, near Santa Barbara, in California. Next, the aerial view is repeated 10 days later when men and equipment of the U.S. Forest Service have gained access to the burned out area. Scene shifts to an airfield, where a Twin Beechcraft model 18 aircraft is being loaded with a special grass seed mixture to be broadcast over the denuded area to provide protection against floods. The Twin Beech aircraft is seen taking off. Aerial view of the aircraft flying over California hills. Glimpse of the pilot at the controls in the cockpit. His nose and mouth are covered with a mask (to protect from the seed dust inside the plane). More aerial views of the plane in flight and then spraying grass seed over the damaged area.
A sea lion named 'Flip' in the Francis Turner household in California. The sea lion found on beach is in a bathtub. He dines on the table with the family members. Francis Turner takes him to the beach and sets him free. A group of men stand and watch him. Flip refuses to leave and comes back at the doorstep of Turner's house.