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Conventioneers stand near a swimming pool during National Academy Convention in Palo Alto, California.

National Academy Convention held in Palo Alto, California. View of a swimming pool. Conventioneers stand near the pool. Chairs arranged in a row near the swimming pool. Men and women stand and talk in groups. Two women sit on chairs.

Location: Palo Alto California USA
Date: 1951
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053605
Former President and Mrs. Herbert Hoover voting in 1940 Presidential election

Herbert Hoover carries a folded ballot to a ballot box, where a woman helps him to insert it. He shakes her hand and walks away. Scene shifts to Hoover filling out a ballot, at a table. A woman is seen in the background bending over and filling out her own ballot. Hoover smiles and gets up from his chair. Next, Mrs.Hoover (Lou Henry) sits at the table filling out her ballot. She stands up and steps away.

Location: Palo Alto California USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050189
Following Kristallnacht, former President Hoover and others make nationwide plea for Jews facing Nazi brutality in Europe.

President Franklin D Roosevelt leads the nation's protest against prosecution of Jews in Germany. Roosevelt during a recording of the plea. In Germany, Jewish owned shops with broken windows following Kristallnacht (night of broken glass) depict Nazi brutality in Germany. Palo Alto, California: Former President Herbert Hoover expresses indignation at the brutal intolerance of the Nazis and predicts their 'moral isolation'. He also expresses American support for Jews and Christians in Germany and compares their brutality to the destruction of religious worship by the Bolsheviks in Russia. New York: Reverend RI Gannon of Fordham University and Methodist Bishop Edwin H Hughes raise their voices against the outbreaks of violence and hate against Jews in Europe. They compare the Nazis to the original Huns and make a plea for the Jews.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1938, November 16
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043734
An early hang glider design and flight attempt. Glider pilot fails to take off on foot as he falls in Palos Verdes, California.

A hang glider pilot readies for a flight attempt and then tries to take off by running down a hillside on foot in a glider in Palos Verdes, California. The pilot being helped by others as he straps himself into the glider. He runs down the hillside trying to achieve flight. The pilot falls and fails to take off.

Location: Palos Verdes California USA
Date: 1936, May 11
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051384
City views of San Francisco; United Nations Conference on International Organization held in San Francisco, California (WW2)

A documentary on The United Nations Conference on International Organization that continued from April 25, 1945 to June 26, 1945 in San Francisco. A plane in flight and ships are seen in San Francisco Bay. 1940s San Francisco city views: Aerial views of Golden Gate Bridge. People on streets on San Francisco, with streetcars, buildings, pedestrians, and mid 1940's cars seen. Aircraft parked at a USAF Base as delegates from 50 countries arrive. Delegates like Jan Christian Smuts from South Africa, Vyacheslav Molotov from Russia, U.S. secretary of State Edward Stettinius arrive in San Francisco. Delegates register for the conference. United States flag on a building. Interior of the War Memorial Opera House serving as the initial meeting hall. Delegates seated. U.S. President Harry S. Truman addressing the general assembly remotely, as delegates listen through radio speakers in the opera house. Narrator recalls words of Franklin Roosevelt and recorded audio of Roosevelt is heard where he urges continuation of the work first begun by the defunct League of Nations. View of various working committees and smaller groups of the organization meeting during the Spring of 1945. Representatives debate and review concepts initiated at the Dumbarton Oaks conference in Washington DC in 1944 during World War II. Delegates addressing those assembled and signing documents that create the United Nations.

Location: San Francisco California USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 7 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032536
Pilot whale Bubbles celebrates her 1st anniversary of captivity at Marineland of the Pacific, California.

Pilot whale named Bubbles in a pool as she celebrates her 1st anniversary of captivity at Marineland of the Pacific, Palos Verdes California. A man feeds Bubbles. People pose for photo. Bubbles jumps as man feeds.

Location: Palos Verdes California USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035447
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