Golden Gate City: San Francisco
Golden Gate City: San Francisco is a short film from ca. 1939 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
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.| Golden Gate City: San Francisco | |
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| Produced by | Castle Films |
Production company | Castle Films |
| Distributed by | Castle Films |
Release date | ca. 1939 |
| Language | English |
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