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UN Charter signed in San Francisco Conference; President Harry S. Truman addressing General Assembly; Franklin Roosevelt speech about peace

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."

Location: San Francisco California USA
Date: 1945, June 26
Duration: 8 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032540
Devastation in Elizabeth, New Jersey residential neighborhood after American Airlines plane crash; also mid-air explosion of plane at British air show.

Major catastophe events of the year 1952. Views of destruction on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after American Airlines flight 6780, a Convair 240, crashed into a house at Williamson and South Streets on January 22, 1952. Burned wreckage and devastation seen at the crash site in Elizabeth following the crash and subsequent explosions damaging or destroying multipole houses in the 600 block of Williamson Street. In the first few seconds of the clip, the Battin High School for Girls is seen in the background. The school was adjacent to the crash but not hit. Narrator also describes the crash of an Army transport plane in California which killed 86 soldiers, but no images of that crash are shown. Next scenes shift to England, on September 6, 1952, as a de Havilland DH.110 jet aircraft, piloted by John Derry, explodes in midair after achieving Mach 1 and then beginning a left bank and climb at 450 knots during the 1952 Farnborough Airshow. Spectators at the British air show are seen on the ground in the area below the explosion and where debris rained down on the crowd causing deaths and injuries. Engines from the blown-up DH.110 plane (prototype, ID WG236) are seen hurtling through the sky toward Observation Hill immediately after the mid-air explosion. Scenes show crowd working to tend to the wounded and shocked families and children crying.

Location: Elizabeth New Jersey USA
Date: 1952, January 23
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049157
Grady Nix rides a motorcycle upside down around his wife as Mrs. Nix sits calmly in a locked cage in Miami Beach, Florida.

Grady Nix rides a motorcycle upside down in a locked cage with his wife, in Miami Beach, Florida. Exterior of the locked spherical cage in Miami Beach. Spectators stand around the cage. Grady Nix rides a motorcycle all around and upside down in the locked cage as Mrs. Nix sits calmly in the center of the round cage (the "globe of death"). The spectators watch the stunt performed by Nix. The couple stand and are cheered by crowd after the stunt.

Location: Miami Beach Florida USA
Date: 1932, December 15
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070960
View of waterfall, valley, canyon and mountains in Yosemite National Park in California

View of waterfall in Yosemite National Park. Tourists look at mountains. Tourists on overhang look down into the canyon. Tourists on horseback travel down a steep path into the canyon.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1917
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025650
Newsreel: "Defy death in thrilling surf board-glider hop" shows an acrobatic surfer leap from surfboard to glider aircraft

A young man travels on an aquaplane (surfboard) at Newport Beach. He springs to the undercarriage of a glider towed overhead. Pilot seated in the glider. The man repeats the performance and performs an acrobatic stunt.

Location: Balboa Newport Beach California USA
Date: 1936, February 26
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041295
Power transmission lines from Boulder Dam power plant and map depictions of water supply from Parker Dam and Imperial Dam.

A power plant at Boulder Dam and pictorial depictions of water supplies from Parker Dam and Imperial Dam serving California. The two wings of Boulder Dam power plant, one along each side of the Black Canyon wall. The power plant with different units for generating power. The machinery inside the plant. The major transmission lines that carry power to Los Angeles California metropolitan areas. Two men in the plant near transmission lines. A map depicts the path of power transmission lines. The power plant with turbines. The transmission lines along a desert. A path in the desert. A map depiction of water supply from Parker Dam to the city of Los Angeles. A map depiction of water supply to the Imperial Valley from Imperial Dam. The whole of the Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) in view with water gushing through the gates.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054726
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