European Space Agency (ESA) EXOSAT satellite launch,May 26, 1983 , from the Vandenberg space complex in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Technicians work on the satellite. Satellite ready for launch atop Thor-Delta rocket. Control room filled with personnel and monitoring systems and screens. Count-down completes, rocket ignites, and satellite is launched in a blast of fire and smoke. Pieces of rocket fall away as satellite speeds towards orbital destination..
Heublein rare wine auction in the United States. A man opens a wine bottle. Another person swirls and tastes a white wine. 1970s and 1980s cars on a road in Los Angeles, driving into Beverly Hills area, and passing a road sign that says "Beverly Hills". A sign by the side of the road reads 'Beverly Hills'.Courtyard of luxury hotel. Rolls Royce Silver Spirit automobile parked. Sign identifies the "Beverly Wilshire." Large sign inside the hall reads: "The Heublein Premier National Auction of Rare Wines (Fifteenth Anniversary)." Tables laden with wine bottles and glasses. Crowd mills about and tastes the various wines. A man sips a glass of wine and speaks about the relationship between markets for California and European wines. A man dressed in 18th century costume holds up a bottles of wine while auctioneer elicits bids. Participants bid by holding up their identification numbers.
Exterior of a United Nations theater in San Francisco, with movie theater marquee indicating its use exclusively for pass holders attending the United Nations Conference on International Organization. Inside the Delegates of United Nations conference gather during the 2nd week of the conference to watch footage of the German surrender at Reims, signed by General Alfred Jodl. Projectionist and movie projector in booth of theater are shown. View of men and women in movie theater watching movie, including an elevated side view of people watching the movie, and views of the theater screen and movie playing, with backs of heads of people in foreground. Delegates talking and attend meeting in San Francisco, California as they continue work leading toward defining the UN Charter and founding the United Nations organization. Footage from the San Francisco Conference vote, chaired by Anthony Eden of Great Britain, approving the Charter of the United Nations on June 26, 1945
San Francisco streets, people standing. Representatives of nations signing the United Nations Charter during the San Francisco conference, including representatives from France, two other nations, and the United States (with Edward Stettinius signing and U.S. President Harry S. Truman standing by. View of a U.S. Navy bus pulling up in front of the building. Disabled war veterans from World War 2 exit the bus with assistance. Many are missing limbs and are using crutches or wheel chairs. A small group of citizens is gathered to welcome them. A young boy looks on with concern as the disabled soldiers and sailors exit the bus. His father comforts the boy. President Truman addressing the General Assembly. Views of United Nations flags of many countries fluttering in San Francisco, California.
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."
A girl smiling and talking in gathering of "Holy Rollers" Singing, dancing, tambourine being played at the Angelus Temple Foursquare Church (1100 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026, United States) in Los Angeles, California. Young woman overcome by religious and spiritual emotion at the charismatic, fundamentalist revival church service.
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