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UNITED NATIONS THEATRE O'FARRELL STREET BETWEEN POWELL AND MASON [wrapper title]. A scarce program recording the schedule for the last week of entertainment at the United Nations Theatre, which served delegates and guests of the foundational convention of the organization. The United Nations Conference on International Organization was held in San Francisco from April 25 to June 26, 1945. Representatives of fifty nations met in San Francisco that spring – between the 850 delegates and their connected staff, more than 3500 attendees were gathered in one of the largest international conferences ever organized. Nearly 500 official (and many more unofficial) meetings were held over the next ten weeks, with commissions set up to scrutinize each aspect of the proposed charter. On June 25, the final draft of the UN's charter was given to delegates, with 111 articles describing the functioning of the organization itself and an additional seventy outlining the Statute of the International Court of Justice. The following day, it was unanimously ratified and signed at the Herbst Theatre.Ever the canny advertisers, the American Motion Picture Industry leapt at the opportunity to show off its productions to the thousands of gathered foreign dignitaries. They co-opted the former Alzacar Theatre (once the San Francisco home of the WPA's Federal Theatre Project) to show feature films, cartoons, and documentaries to the attendees for all ten weeks of the convention, free of charge. On the doc

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