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USS California (BB-44) being salvaged at Pearl Harbor
United States Navy ship salvage activities at Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. Harbor tug USS Geronimo (YTM-119) and another tug moving the USS Califonia (BB-44) to Drydock number 2, a month after she was successfully refloated. Repair crews watch from her decks as tugs move the battleship. (World War II period).
Indian Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru, and daughter Indira, visit Disneyland Park during visit to the U.S.A.
United States Marine helicopter, carrying Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter, Indira Nehru (Indira Gandhi), lands at the Disneyland heliport in Anaheim, California. Prime Minister Nehru and daughter meets Walt Disney (Walt Elias Disney), who conducts them, personally, on a tour of Disneyland Park. Tomorrowland rides and attractions are seen. Prime Minister Nehru rides beside Walt Disney in a small open train that conveys them past waterfalls high on Matterhorn Mountain, and a recreation of an American Indian encampment. Nehru is seen waving to crowds at the park. Later, (on his 72nd Birthday) the Prime Minister and his daughter are feted at a reception by Mr. Eric Johnston, President of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and wife Ina Harriet Hughes. Hollywood actors Edward G. Robinson and Charlton Heston are among the persons seen conversing with the Prime Minister.
Student drivers attend lecture by Bob Bondurant, ambulance, police and race car training at Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving
A Mercedes-Benz sedan driven by Bob Bondurant. Sign for the "Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving" located at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California. Gran Prix racecar driver, Bob Bondurant, drives. Grand Prix and other racing trophies awarded to Bob Bondurant. Various cars parked in driving school lot. Bob Bondurant lectures to driving school students inside classroom, mostly men but one woman as well. Bob Bondurant points to diagram. A woman drives a red Chevrolet Camaro on driving school road course. Bob Bondurant uses a toy racecar to demonstrate proper drifting. A car drifts on road course. Police car drives in road course. Ambulance driver drives during a practical driving class. Ambulance drifts on wet road course and recovers. Police pursuit driving in road course. Police car safely evades a tumbling block from car. Police car makes a sharp 180 turn during police pursuit driving class. Police car overtakes and apprehends car. Grand Prix student racecar drivers approach several cars, including Porsches and Grand Prix models. Driver puts on a helmet and enters car. Two cars both drive off, one a Porsche 911. Grand Prix drivers drive in road course during training, with two Porsche 911 cars chasing a Grand Prix model. Bob Bondurant speaks to female student driving a Chevy Camaro. Tire rolled in front of a moving ambulance. Bob Bondurant lectures with diagram. Police car pulls up after laps. Bob Bondurant shakes hands with female driving student. Traffic light turns red.
U.S. Army motor transport convoy in Oakland and San Francisco after Transcontinental Motor Convoy trip across America in 1919
U.S. Army trucks of the 1919 motor transport convoy drive past a moving trolley car on a street in Oakland, California. Spectators gather along side of street at ferry slip to watch as convoy trucks board a ferry boat for trip to San Francisco. Several men watch from upper deck of the ferry. A boy with a bicycle watches from beside a fence. View from upper deck of the ferry boat, of trucks driving aboard. A line of civilian cars sits to the side as the army vehicles drive aboard. View from the ferry boat underway in San Francisco harbor. Next, the convoy is seen driving along street in San Francisco, on September 7, 1919. The Mayor of San Francisco, James Rolph Jr., conversing with officers of the convoy, as they stand on a flag wrapped stand during a formal greeting ceremony. More views of convoy trucks in the city and lined up on hill overlooking San Francisco Bay.
Jack Pickford and Marilyn Miller's wedding at Pickfair
Jack Pickford and Marilyn Miller's marriage ceremony at their Pickfair estate in Beverly Hills, California. Ducks roam on lawn outside on grounds of the estate house. Bride and groom come with people following them. Clergy talks to them. Mary Pickford comes and kisses her brother and the bride, twice. Charlie Chaplin then clowns around with Mary Pickford, pretending to place a ring on her finger. Douglas Fairbanks performs some humorous, comic exercises.
Scenes from the Dole Trans-Pacific Air Derby of 1927
Aerial view of airfield at Oakland, California. Pilot, Bennett Griffin, is seen with his wife and child, standing beside his Travel Air 5000 airplane,"Oklahoma." Registration number:"N-X 911" is stenciled on its tail. Pilot Martin Jensen, saying farewell to members of his family in front of his airplane,"Aloha" (that finished second in the race). Aircraft being readied for takeoff. Starter with checkered flag stands ready as nine men push the Travel Air 5000 "Oklahoma, the first to take off, forward into starting position, with engine running. Next scene shows starter holding stopwatch and flag. He signals start with the flag. Scene shifts to the second aircraft to take off, the Goddard Special metal monoplane, NX5074, "El Encanto." Camera tracks as the airplane has difficulty breaking ground, skipping several times in a long ground roll. Suddenly, it veers off the the right in a crab, wiping out its landing gear and breaking part of its right wing as it flips over in a crash leaving it tilted on its left wing facing backwards. Some smoke is seen but quickly disappears. Men and rescue personnel rush to the scene. (Reportedly the crew was unhurt.) Next, the prototype Lockheed Vega 1 monoplane, NX913, "Golden Eagle," is making smooth takeoff. Navigator Gordon Scott waves to spectators below as the plane climbs out. Aerial view of the plane in flight. The "Miss Doran," a Buhl CA-5 Air Sedan, number NC2915, is seen next on takeoff, past photographers and spectators, and then airborne. Next, the Breese-Wilde 5 Monoplane, NX914, "Aloha" is seen taking off. It climbs out very slowly. Navigator Paul Schluter waves as they depart. Pilot Arthur C. Goebel and navigator, Willian V. Davis Jr. are seen next by their plane "Woolaroc." A woman wishes them good luck, with a bouquet of flowers. Next, men are seen pushing the "Woolaroc" and it takes off and climbs. Pre-departure footage of Pilot Gordon Scott and navigator John W. Frost, with friends, near their airplane, "Golden Eagle." (Their aircraft vanished in the Pacific.) Pre-departure footage of pilot John Augie Pedlar, navigator Lieutenant Vilas R. Knopie, and their passenger, Mildred Doran, whose aircraft, "Miss Doran," was also lost in the Pacific.