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Founding Of United Nations - San Francisco 1945
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keywords: cold war, united states, california, san francisco, founding united nations, u.n., president harry s. truman
Synopsis: The founding of the U.N. United Nations in San Francisco as delegates from around the World gather to create an organization to promote international co-operation and mediation of disputes...(read more)
- Date: 1945
- Duration: 00:16:20
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Founding Of United Nations - San Francisco 1945
00:00:35:13
Aerial view of Golden Gate Bridge with war ships at anchor in San Francisco Bay in 1945. Image of war ship passing under Golden Gate Bridge. Vintage views of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Vintage views of San Francisco. Head-on shot of approaching cable car. Street scenes of San Francisco traffic, people, buildings.
00:01:28:12
Jan Christian Smuts, Vyacheslav Molotov, Secretary Stettinius, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek with T.V. Soong and other delegates to the United Nations conference arrive by plane and train in San Francisco.
00:02:26:08
Line of military ambulances meets arriving plane, wounded veterans are unloaded and placed in Military ambulances. American flag at haft-mast on Roosevelt's death.
00:03:04:04
First day of United Nation Conference on International Organization in San Francisco in 1945 (San Francisco Conference). UN delegates standing in a moment of silence in memory of Franklin D Roosevelt. Audio as narrator recalls words of Franklin Roosevelt and a recorded audio of Roosevelt is heard as he said "Twenty-five years ago, American fighting men looked to the statesmen of the world to finish the work of peace for which they fought and suffered. We failed them then. We cannot fail them again, and expect the world to survive again."
00:04:03:00
President Truman opens the first UN Conference by radio from Washington by stating "It is not the purpose of this Conference to draft a treaty of peace in the old sense of that term. This Conference will devote its energies and its labors exclusively to the single problem of setting up the essential organization to keep the peace. You are to write the fundamental charter."
Secretary Stettinius confers with Anthony Eden and Molotov.
00:05:05:21
San Francisco Conference Delegates from various countries around the world checking-in at Registration booth at the United Nations Conference (International politics) in San Francisco in 1945.
00:06:23:06
Scenes of the smaller working groups at the United Nations Conference (International politics) in San Francisco in 1945.
00:06:53:12
United Nations organizational charts as narrator explains the Organization Chart of the United Nations.
00:09:04:00
UN Delegates watch as United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) supplies are being loaded aboard ships, UN Delegates visits a shipyard and browse through the San Francisco art gallery, and look at Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings. CU images of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings.
00:10;23:10
Movie theater marquee that reads "United Nations". Movie theater rented for exclusive use of UN Delegates to watch movie of the surrender of Germany in WWII. Shows UN Delegates watch movie of German surrender. Scenes of the atrocities committed by the Nazis at German concentration and slave labor camps and destructions of cities in WW2.
00:14:33:09
President Truman watching as Secretary Stettinius signs the United Nations Charter for the United States.
00:14:54:02
People watch as wounded American veterans arrive at Opera House for second Plenary Session of the United Nations Conference April 27, 1945.
00:15:25:18
President Harry S Truman address at the closing session of the United Nations in San Francisco on June 26, 1945. President Truman stated "There were many who doubted that agreement could ever be reached by these fifty countries differing so much in race and religion, in language and culture. But these differences were all forgotten in one unshakable unity of determination to find a way to end wars."
