Golden Gate City: San Francisco

Creator: Castle Films

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: The following shotlist is keyed to the PA-0659 transfer; 08:31:42:11 LS Golden Gate bridge, steamship passes under the bridge, aerial of the Golden Gate Bridge, great high-angle shot from atop the one of the bridges towers, what looks like a Navy battleship passes beneath bridge.; 08:31:57:04 VS Cluster of sailboats with white sails in the San Francisco Bay, sailboats sails across frame, San Francisco in background; 08:32:10:27 Great pan over Alcatraz, LS Alacatraz; 08:32:21:10 LS Coit Memorial Tower atop Telegraph Hill, great pan over San Francisco from atop Telegraph Hill, Northbeach, downtown, the Bay Bridge, Treasure Island, Yerba Buena Island; 08:32:39:14 Great tracking shot of an A train traveling on the Bay Bridge to San Francisco from the East Bay, LS Treasure Island World’s Fair site as seen from the bridge, LS Treasure Island site of the 1939 - 1940 World’s Fair; 08:32:54:04 Pan over downtown San Francisco, LS San Francisco, LS high-angle of the Ferry Building; 08:33:14:15 VS LS San Francisco from Twin Peaks; 08:33:27:18 High-angle shot looking up bustling Market Street in San Francisco, VS high-angle Market Street, sidewalk flower stand on Market St., woman buys bouquet; 08:33:59:11 LS intersection of Market Street, Kearny and GearySt., VS Lotta’s Fountain; 08:34:15:17 LS the St. Francis Hotel facing Union Square, high-angle shot Union Square, San Francisco; 08:34:26:10 High-angle shot cable car rotated on turntable; 08:34:39:09 VS Tracking shot from front of car driving up steep San Francisco hill, cars on street.; 08:34:48:29 Pan over the Civic Center, pan over City Hall; 08:35:04:06 Great shot man wearing fedora kneeling down throwing food to seagulls; 08:35:08:08 VS Exposition Auditorium; 08:35:22:10 Great MS police officer looking out window through thick metal bars.; 08:35:23:21 Pan over San Francisco Mint modernist building, 5 police officer stand guard outside building in front of U.S. Mail truck, each officer holds a rifle, VS workers loading carts with blocks precious metals, police officers stand guard; 08:35:44:11 Row of workers in the San Francisco mint, CU machine which looks like a cement mixer spilling out unmarked coins into a bar, disembodied hand in gloves scoops up a handful of coins, CU freshly stamped coins pour out of machine into a container, worker pours freshly minted coins into a bag.; 08:36:01:12 CU disembodied hand attach tag to bags of coins with “S.F. Mint” stenciled on them.; 08:36:04:15 LS Chinatown, low-angle shot steel statute of Sun Yat-Sen, VS architectural details in Chinatown, Chop Suey neon signs; 08:36:37:37:10 Great shot little children lined up in background watching Chinese dragon performance, man hits drum marked St. Mary’s, MS group of you Chinese-American girls and two boys watching the performance, CU young Chinese boy; 08:36:55:16 CU disembodied hands holding thick wood drum sticks hitting large drum head, Chinese dragon dancing to percussion music; 08:37:04:17 Chinese lined up inside Buddhist Temple in San Francisco on Chinese New Years, man in background wearing suit and gold Buddha mask, MS old Chinese man and woman giving money at the temple, man wearing large gold Buddha masks urges people to give more money; 08:37:26:29 VS young Chinese women modeling various traditional clothes.; 08:37:45:14 Fisherman’s Wharf, group of fishermen pulling in their net onto a push cart, MS old fishermen mending a fishing net; 08:38:08:05 VS fountain at the site of the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition of 1915, Palace of Fine Arts.; 08:38:22:13 VS Mission Dolores; 08:38:37:00 VS De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, 1940s cars driving through Golden Gate Park, waterfall in Golden Gate Park, young women riding horses through Golden Gate Park, sheep pasture in Golden Gate Park scattered with sheep, LS the Botanical Gardens inside the park, VS Buffalo grazing in Golden Gate Park; 08:39:52:27 Great shot man hits golf ball toward the Bay Bridge in the distance, men on green of golf course, Bay Bridge and San Francisco Bay visible in background; 08:40:09:05 LS The California Palace of the Legion of Honor; 08:40:16:21 Great high-angle shot of the Cliff House, VS seals basking on the rocks; 08:40:34:02 High-angle shot of the San Francisco Esplanade along Ocean Beach, low-angle shot of the windmill alongside the Esplanade.