Let’s Get Associated With San Francisco

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Survey of famous tourist sites in San Francisco in 1938.; 01:00:37:10 Intertitle over sparkling water “A city of supreme and exotic beauty…”; 01:02:01:14 Elevated shot overlooking downtown San Francisco and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; 01:02:20:27 Sign; “San Francisco Airport; New York - 15 Hours; Los Angeles - 2 Hours”; 01:02:39:07 VS 1940s San Francisco airport. Old United Airlines commercial passenger plane on runway and taxiing.; 01:03:05:02 Train tracks and train station, train quickly passing in front and away from camera. Second train passes headed toward camera.; 01:03:35:18 Shot from San Francisco Bay facing pier 57 and downtown San Francisco.; 01:04:00:22 Ferry “Sacramento” pulling into pier, lots of steam exhaust.; 01:04:25:27 Trolley cars pulling into central hub pedestrians scurrying about.; 01:04:53:05 VS pan across San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.; 01:06:30:05 Perspective shot from car crossing San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.; 01:06:45:01 Sailboat with three sailors in the bay passing in front of large steamer.; 01:07:05:02 Intertitle; “Golden Gate Bridge…; World’s longest Single Span; 8940 Feet”; 01:07:10:27 Golden Gate bridge from north western San Francisco. Perspective shot from car crossing the Golden Gate bridge. Old 1930s cars. Pedestrians walking across bridge on sidewalks.; 01:07:46:13 Perspective shot from car on Montgomery Street in Financial District. Lots of traffic on sidewalks. Bicyclists on street.; 01:08:05:02 VS Stock Exchange and Federal Reserve Bank, good architectural shots.; 01:08:45:14 Federal Building near Civic Center pans to City Hall.; 01:09:08:17 Great architectural shot of San Francisco City Hall.; 01:09:17:00 Little boy surrounded by pigeons with fountain in background.; 01:09:29:10 Exposition Auditorium with fountain in front.; 01:09:54:09 San Francisco’s Main Library of 21 branches at that time and contains 520,000 volumes alone.; 01:10:08:03 San Francisco Mint building where 3,000.000 dollars were minted one year prior to the film.; 01:10:23:14 VS residential San Francisco neighborhoods.; 01:11:27:01 VS Shopping District. Sherman Clay & Co. H. Liebes & Co.; 01:11:40:04 Upper class women leaving fancy building each with a box under their arms; 01:12:23:29 Market street facing Twin Peaks followed by Market Street looking toward Ferry Building. California state flags waving on one side of street, American flags down other.; 01:13:09:01 Great overhead shot of cable car turning around.; 01:13:40:16 The Furniture Mart building.; 01:14:05:03 Big band playing in Golden Gate Park, audience back to camera looks on, band leader bows to the audience.; 01:14:22:26 De Young Museum.; 01:14:38:08 VS CU flowers in Golden Gate Park. Goose swimming in water. Couple rowing in lake. Men lawn bowling. Pan up wind mill. Highway along Pacific Ocean.; 01:16:57:00 Gravestone: Roald Amundsen 1872-1928.; 01:17:30:00 VS of crowds of people at the Zoo watching animals, animals in cages, Llama, Elk, CU Giraffe head.; 01:18:40:00 Possibly 49ers playing football.; 01:18:59:12 Nice shot of Golden Gate Bridge.; 01:19:15:03 Men in all white clothes and long pants playing doubles tennis in small tournament stadium.; 01:19:49:14 VS famous San Francisco doorways: Golden Gate International Exposition, Palace Hotel; 01:20:29:22 VS children playing in public pool, cute little girl sliding down slide, kids on swings, cute little girl in bonnet on donkey, Little princess girl with tiara.; 01:21:32:02 Pretty woman lying on beach in bathing suit. Couple, man and woman, running holding hands into the ocean.; 01:21:46:29 Two women riding in gallop on horses side by side.; 01:22:22:26 Plaque: “Gift to James Lick Pioneer 1847”, VS of statues of pioneers and early settlers; 01:23:03:12 Mission Dolores founded by Junipero Serra in 1776.; 01:23:18:01 Coit Tower.; 01:23:39:06 VS Palace of the Legion of Honor art exhibits and organ recitals. The Thinker Statue beneath “Honneur Et Patrie” “Honor and Country”, nice architectural details.; 01:24:31:05 VS Palace of Fine Arts. Last of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition buildings.; 01:24:48:22 The Opera House.; 01:25:02:04 Veterans’ War Memorial.; 01:25:31:10 VS San Francisco clubs: Associated; 01:26:19:18 Great VS Chinatown, Old Saint Mary’s Church.; 01:27:31:23 VS San Francisco waterfront.; 01:28:55:15 VS Fisherman’s Wharf and Fish Market.; 01:30:18:01 Angel Island, US government quarantine island.; 01:30:37:16 Alcatraz federal penitentiary.; 01:30:54:13 Yerba Buena Island, US Naval training station.; 01:31:05:29 Two women looking at model of 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island. VS; of model.; 01:31:47:04 VS Treasure Island, 400 acre man-made island, workers and builders working on the construction of Treasure Island and the International Exposition.; 01:33:26:28 San Francisco panorama shot with United States Navy fleet anchored in the San Francisco Bay.; 01:34:34:24 Swarm of people excitedly disembarking from ferry onto Treasure Island passing beneath camera. VS of people entering the exposition site and exploring the grounds.