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Representatives of nations sign United Nations Charter at end of San Francisco Conference.
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.
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."
Church, home, town, and coal mining scenes, and Roscoe Holcomb singing in a poverty stricken area of Kentucky.
'The High Lonesome Sound: Kentucky Mountain Music' explores the lives of Appalachian mountain people in a depressed area of Kentucky through spiritual and folk music. Shows how the poverty-stricken people maintain their traditions and dignity through their music. A religious evangelical church congregation gathered by a river under railway tracks for a ceremony. Men, women and children among the crowd. The church preacher sings gospel while wading in the water. The congregation joins in. A Christian baptism ceremony, possibly pentecostal or charismatic, takes place as a women is immersed in the river. Several women jumping and flailing in celebration. Sound of rail cars filled with coal moving on tracks. Coal Miners seated in mine cars at a coal mine. People sit outside a building on a street. Cars pass by. The men talk. In Daisy, Kentucky: An old house amidst wooded mountains. Hens around the house. Roscoe Holcomb, an unemployed construction worker and musician in Hazard, Kentucky, on a swing at the house. A spider in a large web at the house. Holcomb plays the banjo and sings 'Across the Rocky Mountain' (example of Appalachian music and bluegrass influence). Clothes hang on the wall by a bed inside the house. A bed side table between twin beds, a lamp in the window, a banjo, wardrobe, and clothes by the window. A single stalk of corn. Clouds over the mountains. Miners at work. They carry small boxes. Coal Miners seated in a coal mine car as it enters a tunnel. Light of the car as it disappears into the tunnel.
The Shepherd family in Old House Branch and the Holcomb family in Daisy listen to and play traditional music.
The lives of Appalachian mountain people in a depressed area of Kentucky, and how they cope with poverty and maintain their traditions and dignity through music. Farmer Shepherd's family house in Old House Branch, Harlan County: Women by the window of a house look out. Farmer Shepherd and his daughters walk up the path towards the house. A dog follows them and barks. Farmer Shepherd, who works in the big company mine, waves as he approaches the house. The family seated inside. A girl with a kitten. A boy plays the banjo and sings appalachian folk music or bluegrass. Framed pictures on the table. dog on the patio, path leading to the house. A girl on the path, a boy milks a cow, women and young girls peel corn cobs. A woman lays the table, girls with cats enter the house. Pictures on the wall inside. The family seated for supper. They eat and talk. Utensils hang on the wall. They put away the utensils after the meal. Daisy, Kentucky: Unemployed construction worker, Roscoe Holcomb walks up a path with his family. They approach their house amidst the mountains. Holcomb works on the farm. A woman dances to music with a little girl. People on a dance floor dance the twist to the tune of a band playing in the background.
Textile workers on strike attend meeting, receive supplies in Georgia with Union support.
Textile workers go on strike in Georgia, United States. Textile workers (possibly from Celanese Corporation in Rome, Georgia) carrying placards outside a factory. Smokestacks are seen in the background. Placards say 'Textile Workers on Strike' and 'Give us real Senority'. Textile workers on strike stand near factory fence. A worker lights his cigarette. Strike committee made up of union members and representatives from the locality and national union convene for a meeting. An African American worker speaks with the strike committee. A man takes the minutes of the meeting. A telegraph is sent through Western Union. Telephone operator transfers a call. Close up views of men and women talking on telephones. Publicity department gets the details from a typewriter. A woman mails a pamphlet “This is your fight”. A man signs a Textile Workers Union of America check made out to the Northwest Georgia Joint Board, TWUA. Man signs an official paper of 'Textile Worker Union of America'. Workers on strike line up outside the TWUA Local 689 commissary. The union commissary replenishes their stocks of food and supplies for the workers to carry them through the time without pay. Workers receive their supplies and food. A man leads the union workers to sing "We shall overcome." The worker takes his supply to his car. Interior of a house, a woman (mother, housewife) gives a glass of milk to a boy, man seated on chair in living room reading newspaper and his family with boy on sofa, and wife joins him.
President Franklin D Roosevelt with his wife and Cabinet office-holders see U.S. Armada Parade.
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt with his wife Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt and newly appointed Cabinet aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) to view U.S. Navy maneuvers. U.S. Navy battleships, the aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) and other ships in New York Harbor. Officials including U.S. War Secretary George Dern, Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels, Admiral Standley, and others can be seen. Biplane airplanes of the United States Navy fleet in a flight formation pass New York City. Troops on Governor's Island offer a salute. Views of skyline of New York City in the background. Views of large warships passing by with Statue of Liberty in the background. Numerous views of skyline of New York City with tall skyscrapers on Manhattan Island, as seen from ships moving in harbor.
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