Science teacher William Edler in a classroom of the Wilbur Avenue Elementary School in Tarzana California, part of the Los Angeles school district. A chart reads 'Happiness is....'. Mr. Edler interacts with the children and talks about happiness and feelings. Some boy and girl students raise their hands to answer. Some children exit the classroom to conduct one on one interviews with other students in a school courtyard. The boys and girls sit in pairs and discuss. Mr Edler and the students sit in a circle on the grass. The children get up. Mr Edler and a woman stand in front of a group of teachers and educators in Los Angeles and describe the exercise, how it deals with promoting self worth and friendship, and how it ties in drug abuse education curriculum. Clip closes with scenes of students in the classroom and one student painting a picture.
The United Nations Conference opens in San Francisco, California near the end of World War 2. Flags of the participating nations. U.S. President Truman speaks to the UN delegates from Washington DC. Cars outside the venue of the conference. Personage at the conference include South Arabian delegates, North African Prime Minister and Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, China's Foreign Minister TV Soong, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, U.S. Secretary of State Stettinius, Andrei Gromyko, Jan Masaryk, Lord Halifax, Molotov and delegates from India, Mexico, Lebanon, Greece, Chezoslovakia, Egypt and Netherlands. Photographers take pictures. Typists work at typewriters in Associated Press Headquarters room. Telephone operators at switchboards. China's Foreign Minister TV Soong, Soviet Russian Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden each address the conference.
First public test flight of a vertical takeoff plane of the U.S. Army in California. People near a vertical takeoff plane. The pilot, Lou Everett, enters the plane. Close view of the wings of the plane. The plane rises vertically in the air and then flies away. People look as smoke rises from the distance where the plane has crashed. A rescue truck moves towards it. Wreckage of the crashed plane.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) visits Yosemite National Park in California, United States. FDR in a car with other dignitaries. They look at a water fall in the national park. Visitors take pictures of the fall. FDR smiles.
Fire on mountain canyons in Santa Monica, California. A blaze of fire roars through the canyons mountains. Smoke rises due to the fire. Fire fighting crew on the road tries to control the fire. A man on a fire fighting crew looks at the fire on the mountains. Crew men control the fire by putting water. Damage due to fire.
Children get the polio vaccine in California. Drug scientists examining racks filled with the polio vaccine in a laboratory. People work in a laboratory. Cartons of polio vaccine are rolled out of the laboratory. Doctors and nurses administer the polio vaccines. Children seated on a bench with their parents for vaccination. A sign reads 'Polio Shots here'. Parents with their children stand in a line for vaccination. Cars parked on the road.
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