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.
World's oldest tortoise in San Francisco, California, United States. A girl feeds lettuce leaves to world's oldest tortoise Anastasia, on the tortoise's 300th birthday. The tortoise chewing on the lettuce leaves. The girl sitting on the tortoise and holds the tortoise by a string tied to the tortoise's neck.
May Day spring festival in San Francisco, California. Girls dressed in fancy dresses take part by dancing around May poles at the spring festival. Each girl holds a ribbon with its other end attached to the May pole. The girls move around the May pole in a circle.
Sick dogs being treated by a veterinary doctor in San Francisco , California. A large number of children and adults with their dogs outside a gate. Gates being opened and people enter. A veterinary doctor examines a dog as a girl holds it. Two young girls holding their puppies. A boy and a girl wear dark goggles and stand beside an examination table as a veterinary doctor aims an overhead machine toward the dog and treats an ailing dog with "electric rays" (early radiotherapy or electrotherapy). Two puppies being treated as a boy and a girl wearing dark glasses stand by.
An amphibian aircraft in San Francisco, California. The aircraft swoops down and then taxis towards a float. The aircraft climbs out of the water onto the float. People get on the aircraft. The aircraft takes off.
Celebration of State's 80th anniversary of admission to the Union in San Francisco, California. Parade pases along streets of city. Spectators standing either side of road. Troops march along road. Various floats pass along streets. Signs on floats: 'NSGW' and 'Mission'. Several patriots walk along road to commemorate the anniversary.
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