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San Francisco California USA 1939 stock footage and images

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Federal Music Project carried out at Federal Theatre in Treasure Island, San Francisco, California

A sign board surrounded by trees at Federal Theatre in Treasure Island. The sign reads "WPA, Federal Music Project," identifying it as a program of the Works Progress Administration or Works Projects Administration during the Great Depression.. Women stand in rows. They carry books in their hands and sing as a chorus. A musician plays piano. A music conductor stands in front of the women.

Date: 1939
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041901
Passengers traveling by a ferry to Federal Theatre in Treasure Island, San Francisco, California

A ferry carries passengers to Federal Theatre in Treasure Island for Golden Gate International Exposition. A view of the buildings from the ferry. Passengers seated in the ferry. Several passengers look at the sea.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041903
Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island, San Francisco.

Aerial view of Treasure Island depicting Tower of the Sun as the centerpiece during Golden Gate International Exposition in Treasure Island, San Farancisco, California. Governor of the State Culbert Olson opens gate for waiting people. People come inside through gate, wave hats in air, and walking. Swings, small train, fountains at fair. Woman taking photo, women bite ice-cream, scene of a building at Island.

Date: 1939, February 18
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034109
UN Charter signed in San Francisco Conference; President Harry S. Truman addressing General Assembly; Franklin Roosevelt speech about peace

Delegates arrive in San Francisco for United Nations Conference for World Organization in San Francisco, California. U.S. President Truman arrives by airplane at the conference and is met by representatives from U.S. delegation including Stettinius. Delegates from other countries are also present and greet the President including Jan Smuts of South Africa and William Lloyd Mackenzie King of Canada. Views of presidential motorcade traveling through streets of San Francisco in a parade-like environment, with crowds lining the sidewalks and cheering. Delegates sign the United Nations Charter during the conference. First to sign is Dr. Wellington Koo from China, signing with a traditional Chinese brush. Also shown signing is Gromyko from the Soviet Union, Lord Halifax from Great Britain, and the delegation from France led by acting delegation chairman Joseph Paul-Boncour. Next is Edward Stettinius and Senator Tom Connally, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Commander Harold Stassen, from the United States. U.S. President Harry S. Truman addresses the general assembly. Representatives of different nations like Lord Halifax of Great Britain, Mackenzie King of Canada, Jan Christian Smuts of South Africa, Andrei Gromyko of Russia and Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru of India can be seen. Flashback to President Franklin D Roosevelt, shortly before his death, addressing Congress about the coming San Francisco Conference. Roosevelt speaks, expressing his hope that Congress and the American People would "accept the results of this conference as the beginning of a permanent structure of peace, upon which we can begin to build, under God, that better world in which our children and grandchildren -- yours and mine - children and grandchildren of the whole world -- must live and can live."

Date: 1945, June 26
Duration: 8 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032540
Hills in the San Francisco Bay area at the end of a street in San Francisco.

The city of San Francisco, California. Cable car 57 with label "Van Ness Ave., California & Market Streets" moves along the street. The cable car driven up a slope. Cars pass by the trolley. The trolley moves up a sloping road. Cars and a taxi pass by. Tracks on the crowded street. A truck passes by. Trees on hills in the San Francisco Bay area at the end of the street.

Date: 1968, April 5
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021685
Football: The Detroit Lions win the Western Title of the NFL against the San Francisco 49ers at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco

The Western Title of the National Football League (NFL) at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. 60,000 spectators gathered at the Kezar Stadium (670 Kezar Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118, United States). NFL game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Detroit Lions begins. Yelberton Abraham Tittle (better known as Y.A. Tittle) passes the ball. San Francisco leads in the first half. Hugh McElhenny breaks away and goes screaming through the Detroit Team. Spectators cheer for the players. The Detroit Lions defeat the San Francisco 49ers.

Date: 1957, December 22
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073135