Spectators seated in arena at 36th annual California rodeo. Cowboys parade in arena. A modern Lady Godiva rides in the parade. Huge crowd cheers. Cowboys ride bucking horses and bulls. A bull throws a cowboy.
Beauties compete for title of 'Miss California' in Venice, California. Beauties walk on ramp. A large crowd of spectators gathers for beauty contest. Panel of judges give remarks. Men take photographs. Janet Mantell wins the title and receives trophy. She poses with trophy.
A 1939 Ford commercial advertisement, in technicolor, promoting the balance and performance of the 1939 Ford Automobiles. A motor boat is seen pulling a man on an aquaplane, in a harbor. A woman balances on the shoulders of a man aquaplaning. They are successful, but both fall off the aquaplane, close to the shore. They are met by three friends and they all get into a 1939 two-door sedan and drive away. They pass a wood-paneled station wagon parked at the side of the road.
Preparations for Golden Gate International Exhibition in California. Exhibition buildings are constructed on Treasure Island at California. A view of boats in water. Man observes the designs for the exhibition buildings. Workers at construction site. Man digs at the site. Lorries at the site. Men saw wood at the construction site. Exhibition buildings are painted. A sign on a building reads 'Federal Theatre'. (Federal Theatre Project was part of the Works Progress Administration or "WPA" during the Great Depression).
Annual ocean swim in La Jolla, California. Nearly 100 swimmers take to sea at the annual ocean swim competition in La Jolla, California. Participants swim through the rough sea. Walter Stewart reaches the finish line to win the competition. Among the women, Florence Chadwick touches the finish line first.
Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence receives the Nobel Prize for his invention in Berkeley, California. Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence, a professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, demonstrates his invention- the "Cyclotron" particle accelerator. Control dials of the machine. Men work at machines. View of Dr. Ernest Lawrence.
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