America's Olympic contenders return in Los Angeles, United States from the Olympic games at Melbourne. The America's Olympic team members climb down a ladder. American weightlifters Paul Anderson carrying Charles Vincci on his shoulders climbs down the ladder. A close up of American Oarsman John B. Kelly. Basketball player Bill Russell. A close up of Anderson waving. All the players including Anderson seated together. American athletes Glenn Davis and Greg Bell stand together. Olympic athletes Bob Richards, Charles Dumas and Tom Courtney stand together. Parry O' Brein meets his family members.
A film depicts how victory ship, SS Hannibal Victory delivered a cargo of 8 railroad locomotives, tenders, flatcars, rails etc. from San Francisco to the U.S. Army in the Philippines. A man cleans a plaque of SS Hannibal Victory ship with a cloth. The chassis stacked at the port . A trolley tows the freight car underframes. The stevedores and longshoremen at work . They load freight car underframes aboard SS Hannibal Victory. The freight car underframes is hoisted and lowered aboard the deck. K-rations, cots, hospital supplies like bandages and plasma loaded in the spaces between the cargo. Men aboard the ship at work. The eight full-grown railroad engines complete with tenders taken towards the ship on the railroad flat cars. Men stand near a locomotive on the railroad flat car. The men aboard a ship and at the dock. A man attaches ropes to the locomotive. The hoisted locomotive is taken aboard the ship. A man directs. The locomotive is cautiously lowered at the deck. A crane operator operates the controls. The locomotive is being lowered. The men giving directions. The men lay road bits and big pine timbers to cushion the weights of the big locomotives . Several views of men turn buckle and put steel rod assemblies to the deck , clamped them tight and wedged chained and bolted them down. A chief with his wife walk and talk. A view of the city in the background. They walk towards the dock. The men covering the locomotives. The chief and his wife cross a road and walk along streets of San Francisco with harbor views behind them. Cars parked on side of the road. The crane operator seated at controls. Men finishing the end tasks. The chief meets his wife before leaving. The chief boars the ship. His wife stands at the dock. Men aboard the ship at work.
Actor dressed as a cowboy,on horseback, smoking a cigarette in a movie. Purportedly an unidentified flying object (UFO) appears behind him in the sky. (Note: This is from a U.S. Air force collection and has been identified as an outtake from a movie entitled "A man called Gannon," filmed in 1968.)
Group of striking United Railroads workers standing in sand at waters edge, waving their hats at the camera. Tents are visible behind them. They lift an object from the sand. View of railroad car damaged by rocks and other objects hurled by strikers. Ocean Shore electric railroad car on street in San Francisco. Passengers get on and off. The electric rail car moves down the street and turns following the track, as a police officer steps into the intersection. Model T car and truck seen behind officer. Ocean Shore railroad train with rough paper sign hung on its side, reading: "Municipal Special, 12th and Mission Streets." Men are hanging out the window over the sign and waving. Many get off the train and stand on the pavement.as the train pulls away
Schoolteacher Ann Pellegreno's flight from San Fransisco. Michigan schoolteacher Ann Dearing Holtgren Pellegreno with her copilot, navigator and mechanic as she prepares to depart in a Lockheed Electra as a recreation of the last flight of famed female aviator, pilot Amelia Earhart. Pellegreno and crew board the Lockheed Electra. The aircraft taxis on the airfield and takes off.
Testing of aircraft at airfield in Los Angeles. Crew men work on an aircraft parked on an airfield. Captain Wilkins stand near the aircraft before his flight from Alaska to North Pole. The aircraft in flight over the city.
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