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Willie Mays signs record contract with San Francisco Giants Baseball Team in 1966

American baseball superstar Willie Mays signs a two-year contract with the San Francisco Giants at a reported $130,000 a year, then a major league record. Cameras, reporters seen covering the event as Mays talks with Giants' officials and journalists. Scenes of Mays playing baseball with Giants, including a steal of second base, his famous over-the-shoulder catch in game 1 of the 1954 World Series, and hitting a record-tying four home runs in one game against the Milwaukee Braves early in the 1961 season. Last shot is Mays with Giants' owner Horace Stoneham.

Date: 1966, February 17
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029934
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.

Date: 1945
Duration: 7 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032536
Views of California's San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco from a cruise ship promotion

Promotional documentary titled 'By The Way of Panama - California The Golden'. Describes views of California to be seen on a cruise from New York, via Panama. The sea shores of California with rocks and sand. A passenger ship sailing in the harbor of San Diego. Views of the San Diego Harbor. The ship, called the "Pennsylvania" reaches harbor of Los Angeles. The buildings and streets of the city of Los Angeles. A Hollywood film studio with shooting underway. Luxury homes of LA. The ship moves on to San Francisco. The harbor of San Francisco including Alcatraz Island in background. Views of the surroundings from a high ridge in San Francisco.

Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035925
22nd Swiss-American Gymnastic Festival in San Francisco, California.

Gymnasts do calisthenics in the 22nd Swiss-American Gymnastic Festival in San Francisco, California. Gymnasts work on pommel-horse and parallel bars.

Date: 1954, July 8
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030300
A crane loads cargo and barrels aboard a merchant vessel docked at a harbor in San Francisco, California.

Cargo loaded aboard a merchant vessel in San Francisco, California. Merchant vessel 'Korea' docked at a harbor. A large crowd of civilians gathered at the harbor. Men haul a trolley loaded with barrels and bags. A crane loads cargo aboard the vessel. A flag flutters in wind atop the vessel mast.

Date: 1954, July 1
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073516
Admiral Nimitz is honored by Boy Scout for his leadership to youth aboard USS Kearsarg in San Francisco, California.

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz aboard USS Kearsarg in San Francisco, California. Admiral Nimitz is greeted by honor guard of the Boy Scouts of America. He boards aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge. Boys Scout aboard the deck. Admiral Chester Nimitz stands at a podium and speaks into a microphone. The boys scout and other people on the deck listen to him. He is honored by the Boy Scout for his leadership to youth. The people attending the ceremony. Admiral is presented with a memento.

Date: 1954, February 23
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069890
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