America's Olympic contenders return in Los Angeles, United States from the Olympic games at Melbourne. The America's Olympic team members climb down a ladder. American weightlifters Paul Anderson carrying Charles Vincci on his shoulders climbs down the ladder. A close up of American Oarsman John B. Kelly. Basketball player Bill Russell. A close up of Anderson waving. All the players including Anderson seated together. American athletes Glenn Davis and Greg Bell stand together. Olympic athletes Bob Richards, Charles Dumas and Tom Courtney stand together. Parry O' Brein meets his family members.
A film depicts how victory ship, SS Hannibal Victory delivered a cargo of 8 railroad locomotives, tenders, flatcars, rails etc. from San Francisco to the U.S. Army in the Philippines. A man cleans a plaque of SS Hannibal Victory ship with a cloth. The chassis stacked at the port . A trolley tows the freight car underframes. The stevedores and longshoremen at work . They load freight car underframes aboard SS Hannibal Victory. The freight car underframes is hoisted and lowered aboard the deck. K-rations, cots, hospital supplies like bandages and plasma loaded in the spaces between the cargo. Men aboard the ship at work. The eight full-grown railroad engines complete with tenders taken towards the ship on the railroad flat cars. Men stand near a locomotive on the railroad flat car. The men aboard a ship and at the dock. A man attaches ropes to the locomotive. The hoisted locomotive is taken aboard the ship. A man directs. The locomotive is cautiously lowered at the deck. A crane operator operates the controls. The locomotive is being lowered. The men giving directions. The men lay road bits and big pine timbers to cushion the weights of the big locomotives . Several views of men turn buckle and put steel rod assemblies to the deck , clamped them tight and wedged chained and bolted them down. A chief with his wife walk and talk. A view of the city in the background. They walk towards the dock. The men covering the locomotives. The chief and his wife cross a road and walk along streets of San Francisco with harbor views behind them. Cars parked on side of the road. The crane operator seated at controls. Men finishing the end tasks. The chief meets his wife before leaving. The chief boars the ship. His wife stands at the dock. Men aboard the ship at work.
Leo Diegel hits the ball. Spectators in the background. Other golfers hit the ball. Crowd follows the golfers after first shots. Golfers hit the ball. Leo Diegel poses with other golfer.
Children gathered at Golden Gate Park for May Day parade and celebrations. Young girls parade wearing dresses. The May Queen dressed in white gown stands. Teenage girls parade. May Queen is crowned. Children dance around the May Poles and crowd watches.
View of Golden Gate Bridge. Official shows the golden rivet to cameras. Crowd gathered for the dedication ceremony in the background. Ed Stanley drives the rivet into structure while Ed Murphy holds the rivet in place. Joseph B. Strauss, head engineer for the project, is also present. View of suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate.
A U.S. soldier radio announcer introduces the radio program "Jubilee" as a band of Army musicians, in uniform, plays a fanfare. Opening montage features a man writing a V-mail fan letter to "Jubilee" to the Armed Forces Radio Service. Montage also shows V-mail staff women processing mail. Announcer Ernie 'Bubbles' Whitman then introduces 'Rochester' from the Jack Benny program. Lena Horne comes to mic and crowd applauds. Rochester and Lena Horne sing "Consequences." Timmie Rogers and Private Bate Wallace then perform, with Timmy Rogers singing, "Bring Enough Clothes for Three Days." Lena Horne is introduced again, finishing the program with the song, "That Man I Love." (World War II period).
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