HOME MOVIES: 1949

This silent color 8mm home movie footage features San Francisco and Santa Barbara, CA. This was filmed in 1949 by San Francisco residents Edward and Mary Burns. Opening: Shrine Circus in San Francisco, CA. The Shrine Circus is a circus founded in the United States in 1906. It travels to roughly 120 cities per year in the U.S.A. and a separate unit travels to about 40 in Canada. It is affiliated with the former Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, now Shriners International (:08). A trapeze artist (:18). A man has tiny horses running around him (:38). A person does a balancing act with a chair (:34). A dancing horse (:64). Clowns (1:17). A person walks across a wire (1:19). A group of people walk across a wire high above the ground and then do a balancing act (1:26). Elephants perform tricks (2:10). The Fox Theatre, a 4,651-seat movie palace located at 1350 Market Street in San Francisco, California - movie marquee for ‘Home of the Brave’ (2:64). Neon lights in the city at night; sign blinks ‘Kerry’s Kerry’s’ (3:10). State Theatre movie marquee: ‘Down to the Sea in Ships’ (3:24). Granada Theatre movie marquee: ‘One Last Fling’ (3:26). Neon lights at night in Santa Barbara, CA: El Paseo, Eaton’s, Hotel Carrillo (3:37). Cars pull up to a building in Santa Barbara, CA; downtown streets (3:38). Hotel Carrillo in Santa Barbara (4:30). Public fountain with children in it with the pier in the background; boats on the water (4:43). Beach in Santa Barbara (5:13). Ship next to a dock (5:20). Beach in Santa Barbara (5:46). El Presidio Real de Santa Bárbara, also known as the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara, is a former military installation in Santa Barbara, California, USA. The presidio was built by Spain in 1782, with the mission of defending the Second Military District in California (5:72). St. Anthony Seminary (6:34). Santa Barbara Mission (7:20). People walk around inside the Mission (7:66). Sculpture (9:64). Mission grounds; flowers and trees (10:46). Filming behind columns from inside a home (11:62). Waitresses set up for a restaurant, the El Presidio in Santa Barbara (12:56). Entrance to Presidio Plaza and shops (13:08). A monk walks with a man (13:57). Mexico travel advertisements inside storefront windows (14:34). Grounds of the Mission (14:46). Flowers up close; a woman poses for the camera (15:64). Flowers in a park (16:36). A woman sits and writes a letter (17:48). Southern Pacific Railroad streamliner, probably the Coast Daylight, train leaves the station (17:53). Santa Barbara Police Department (18:44). Downtown Santa Barbara (18:50).