A busy city street in San Francisco, California. Two women crossing the street. A building at the back. Buses pass on the street. A beach as waves come on to the shore. Golden Gate bridge seen in the distance. Waves coming to shore. Hills in view. People run to catch a cable car. atop a hill in San Francisco. Closeup of people getting on and off a cable car labeled Van Ness Ave. California & Market streets.A cable car passing a parked on on parallel track. Cable car cresting a hill and starting downward on steep street. (Throughout the film, automobiles, vans, and other motor vehicles mingle carefully with the cable cars, clearly being cautious about riders using them.)
Numerous views over the city of San Francisco, California. Some of them are taken from moving elevators in high rise buildings. Camera pans over various parts of the city, from high point overlooking almost everything. Camera pans over North Beach area. An ocean liner is seen in water behind the Coit Tower. The landmark Golden Gate bridge and hills in the distance. A singular tall building looms above much lower buildings below. Alcatraz Island is seen in water behind it. Many and varied views of building roof tops. Cars seen moving on streets below some tall buildings. Some tall buildings are under construction. Golden Gate bridge is backdrop to many scenes. Final scene show buildings viewed from a descending elevator.
Opening scene shows street signs at intersection of Haight and Ashbury, in San Francisco. Several young men pause on a street to check a map. One carries a guitar on his back. A man tries to give them some flyers. Camera follows several people walking past rapidly and then focuses again on the Haight and Ashbury street signs. Camera resumes following people walking past, rapidly. Some might be described as "Hippies."
A suspicious automobile being checked by Customs and Border Protection Officers at the border with Mexico in San Diego, California. Officers check the trunk of the car looking for contraband, illegal border crossings, or illegal drugs. A man is brought out from the trunk. An officer holds him with his hands at the back. An officer opens some luggage. A Customs and Border Protection officer at the US-Mexican border crossing. The officer stops a vehicle and talks to the people inside. Several vehicles behind. The police man stops another car and talks to the driver leaning against the car. Two men near the door of a vehicle. Officers examining the bed of a pickup vehicle. Officer displays a plastic bag, apparently filled with packages of illegal drugs. Some packages fall out as he takes them inside the building.
Two vessels in San Francisco harbor, California. One flies the Norwegian flag on its stern. A crane at the harbor. A large vessel loading and unloading cargoes. The bow of the vessel displays the name: "Oriental Jade." Longshoremen at work. Forklift and pallets on the pier.
Aerial views of San Francisco from the cockpit of an aircraft. The sprawl of buildings in the city. The Golden Gate Bridge. (airplane windshield wiper is visible.)The Presidio. Mountain in far distance. Wide expanse of white surf at shore line. Large rectangular stretch of green (parkland?).
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