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San Francisco California USA 1937 stock footage and images

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San Francisco policemen march and display new techniques of fighting against the gangsters in San Francisco, California.

Police men show new techniques of dealing with culprits in San Francisco, California. Officials at a ceremony. San Francisco policemen lined up at a field during the ceremony. The policemen pass in review. Officers hold the American flag during the ceremony. Cavalry and infantry units march. Policemen on bikes during the parade. An insignia reads ' San Francisco police '. The police exhibits methods of dealing with culprits. Three men acting as gangsters enter a house. The policemen arrive in a car. They fire pistols at the gangsters. A smoke grenade being used. The police succeeds in getting the gangsters out of the house.

Date: 1935, November 13
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058984
Troops and volunteers leave San Francisco to serve in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War

First Regiment, California Volunteers, boarding the Pacific Mail steamer, SS City of Peking, to serve in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. The troops board the steamer at the dock First Street between Brannan and Townsend streets in San Francisco, California. Relatives waving United States flags bid the troops goodbye in the foreground. The troops are seen climbing the gangplank with their travel kits and rifles. At least one woman in the crowd raises a handkerchief to her eyes. The troop ships SS Australia and SS City of Sydney departs San Francisco for Manila, Philippines. Troops are seen on the deck of SS Australia. Two harbor tugs escort the SS City of Sydney. The steamships depart San Francisco on May 25, 1898.

Date: 1898, May 25
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080655
Japanese American travelers being stopped on a highway, and having their belongings searched during World War II.

Several trucks and automobiles carrying Japanese-Americans citizens are stopped and directed to the side of a highway, where policemen search their personal baggage (during time in World War 2 when the U.S. government was sending many Japanese-American citizens to internment camps or relocation centers). Police officers being directed by officials in civilian clothes, search open suitcases and other containers of clothing and personal items, laid out on the pavement. The Japanese American owners repack their suitcases after they are searched. One truck open stake truck is carrying many items of luggage and clothing rolled up and tied. These are all off-loaded and spread out on the pavement for search. A Japanese American woman stands near a 1937 Chevrolet 4-door sedan, in which children are seen looking out from the back seat. The woman helps a man roll up a bundle of clothes, as a uniformed policeman, nearby, searches another one. The woman and and two men repackage and tie the bundle with cord, as a policemen looks in the car trunk. More views of Japanese Americans with their luggage laid out on the pavement being searched. One woman has belongings tied up in a cardboard box labeled: "Sunland Biscuit Company, Los Angeles & San Francisco." Under direction of a civilian official holding a walkie talkie telephone, a policeman helps people load their belongings into an open truck after they have been searched.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026121
American aviatrix Amelia Earhart returns to San Franscisco, United States, aboard the SS Malolo.

American aviatrix Amelia Earhart arrives in San Francisco, California aboard the American passenger ship SS Malolo soon after her crash on takeoff from Luke Field, on Ford Island, Hawaii. She smiles for the camera. SS Malolo anchored at harbor. Flags on the mast of the ship.

Date: 1937, March
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050175
Apple eaters increase their chewing efficiency and also help the jobless thousands in San Francisco, California.

Humor newsreel about apple eaters in San Francisco, California. People in San Francisco increase their chewing efficiency and also help the unemployed thousands by eating apples and helping apple growers during the Great Depression. A man on a walkway of a busy San Francisco street buys an apple from a fruit vendor and is seen chewing an apple. Another man beside him. A man chewing on an apple while having a hair-cut, as the barbers also chew apples. A man looking on also chewing on an apple. A group of women golf players on a golf course eating apples. A woman places an apple down instead of the golf ball and takes a stroke as the other women watch. An engine driver of a train stands in front of a train and eats an apple. A man cleaning the windows of a high skyscraper building holds an apple in one hand and chews on it while working. A dentist attends to a patient in a clinic. The dentist eats an apple while he works, and the patient holds the apple for the dentist to bite from while he works.

Date: 1931, February 2
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055145
International Exposition in Treasure Island, San Francisco, California

Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Close-up view of American flag waving and fluttering in breeze on windy day. A ferry underway. Point of view from moving ferry boat as it approaches main Ferry Terminal in San Francisco, California. People travel by ferry to reach the Federal Theatre in Treasure Island for the Golden Gate International Exposition. Passengers talk and laugh on the ferry. Many views of men, women and children of all ages in typical 1930s clothing fashions. A boy wearing a capshields his eyes from the sun and looks up at seagull birds as they fly in the sky. Panoramic views of San Francisco city skyline and buildings in the City. Hills in the background in some views. People disembark from the ferry.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041894