Home Movie: Bill Dicicco Collection: 003749 - Part 4 of 5 (silent)

Complete Record: Description: Scenes from San Francisco, a railroad trip across the United States, and beautiful street scenes of 1930s China filmed from a tourist's gaze. This film is full of many historically significant images of Chinese and U.S. cities and towns. Can notes: "Home Movies // Bill Dicicco // Can #2 of 2 // 2 rolls // Color and B+W" The content of this film is in multiple files due to film stock and speed changes. Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, Parades and processions, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Transportation, Labor, Social classes, Cities Tags: San Francisco; pan of downtown waterfront; Embarcadero; pan downtown area; piers; Bay Bridge: Coit Tower; City of San Francisco train leaving Oakland station; Pullman Kalkaska car; passenger trains; soldiers; POV railroad tracks shot from rear of moving train; frame; houses; Kungsholm; disco balls; subway exterior; Ogden; Orrington Hotel; Cheyenne Frontier Days; Omaha Union Station; ship leaving port; woman dog training; funeral procession?; processional; bandshells; horse drawn carriages; rickshaws; factories along waterfront; Chinese sailing boats; pagoda; open air market; workers; Hawaii; Empress of Japan cruise ship; ship leaving harbor; ships; palm trees; ocean; Japan; neon lights; butterfly; hummingbird; snow; Palace of Fine Arts; German Shepherds; dogs; dog tricks; pets; impoverished person of color; Chinese laborers; horses being loaded onto train; war ships; Planter's Peanuts sign; high angle views of San Francisco; Lost Landscapes; San Francisco Ferry Building; dining room interiors; woman opening mail; candlelight; Transbay Terminal?; train with "city of san francisco" neon sign; waving at camera; group of women posing for camera; possibly East Bay; train stopped in Carlin, Nevada station; American Dairyland Pullman car; Elko, Nevada station; trains; train trip; neon signs; horses wearing chainmail; sticking out tongue; posing for camera; ship streamers; filmed from ship; huge beautiful Chinese advertisements; Oldsmobile billboard with moving background; panoramic billboards; street scenes; yellow flowers; neon at night; men posing with dogs; martial arts exercises in the park; washing rugs by hand; women holding boxes of Christmas lights; Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, San Francisco; Market Street; Palace Hotel; puppies; panoramic views; San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; freight trains; battleships; skylines; San Bruno Mountains; Coit Tower; laundry; clotheslines; dim interiors; silver tea service; candelight desserts; caboose pulling away; filmed from moving vehicle; military personnel; filmed from moving caboose; dry landscape; image extends between perforations; flicker; Shangri-La neon lights; elaborate hats; Carlin train depot; main street; smoke billowing; "Cheyenne Frontier Days" sign; disembarking passenger train; Omaha Union Station; neon at night; Harmony Inn sign at night; on the train platform; tall water tanks; filmed aboard boat; dogs; German Shepherd; harbor; funereal flower arrangements; horse-drawn carriages; band shell; lace curtains; carrying two baskets balanced with a stick across shoulders; firewood loaded onto carts; smoking; steam locomotives; cloche hats; lighting a cigarette; long cigarette holder; dog in dog house; unloading baskets of dirt from ship; Chinese laborers; long line of workers on gangway; striped beach umbrellas; bathing caps; captains hat; striped shirts; shirtless; under-exposed; vendors selling shell leis; streamers tossed from departing ship; boys swimming in water near steamship; Golden Gate Bridge; cactus; Maui; posing on-deck; white dog; smokestacks pouring diesel smoke; rowing skiffs; corsages; motorboats; full moon; pipe smoking; Lantana bushes; shirtless; chickens roaming on lawn; hummingbirds; rickshaws running by; reflections; tai chi; swordplay martial arts practice; spotted deer; travel and exploration; cacti; Film Sponsor: Creator: Bill Dicicco Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Bill Dicicco Collection PC-0228, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: circa 1943; 1940; 1939; 1937; 1946; 1942 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; California; San Francisco, California; New York; New York, New York; China; Harbin, China; Hawai'i; Nevada; Carlin, Nevada; Utah; Ogden, Utah; Honolulu, Hawai'i; Oakland, California; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Wyoming; Omaha, Nebraska; Nebraska; Elko, Nevada Genre/Form: home movie Film Format: 16mm film Element: reversal Color: color, b&w Color Process: Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: circle triangle, square square, circle circle, square, triangle circle, circle square Frame Rate: 16 fps,12 fps Length (feet): 1361