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Title card: "San Francisco - Survivors Greeted After Epic Ocean Rescue" / Coast Guard Cutter USS Ponchartrain steams into the harbor as people on land celebrate / The ship pulls into the dock with civilians // (VO an explanation of how the footage was processed. starting with an 8mm camera) low angle the Stratocaster plane that went down / Coast Guard Cutter sprays foam marker into the ocean as a guide for the pilot of the stricken plane / Dramatic footage of the airplane ditching into the water with a huge splash / WS survivors perched on the partly underwater craft's wings / A close view of jagged, cracked airplane fuselage ('Pan American') and rafts of the people approach the ship / VS the survivors reach the ship and are brought on board / the Stratocruiser sinks into the ocean // San Francisco: The rescued people walk the gangplank to the dock as a journalist with a microphone speaks to a blond woman, Mrs. Richard (Jane) Gordon, with her husband Richard and twin daughters Maureen and Elizabeth / Seen from the ship, a line of sailors look over a railing to the people below; Mrs. Ruby Downing (Sp); Louise Walker with her happy family; a journalist takes notes / VS passengers and Coast Guardsmen: Mrs. Ruby Dami; Captain Richard Ogg kisses his wife; Coast Guardsman Ronald Christian, with his fiance in his arms; stewardess Mary Daniels; purser Patricia Reynolds; Stewardess Katherine Araki / VS the rescued people, plane personnel, Coast Guardsmen, journalists on the dock