Home Movies: Laubscher Collection: Shrine Parade, San Francisco (1932)
1932 · Ephemeral film · 14 min
Synopsis
Parade in San Francisco Civic Center Rainier Brewing float: "Back to Beer and Prosperity" housefronts Becker storage company van outside house tent camping Pictures of Roosevelt and Hoover on tent brief parade scenes on Market street Victoria, BC scenes totems air show car traffic around air show large US Navy dirigible at Moffett Field – hangar under construction Hotel Quincy another parade at SF Civic Center more camping Echo Summit Hot Rock picnic
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- Running time
- 14 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Go beyond that, please! · Spuzz · 2019-11-28
Movie begins with a Shrine parade... are they different then Shriners? (shrug).. Some imaginative floats here. Then we go to a camp/picnic, lots of people having fun in flapper hats! Then off to Victoria! Immediately recognized because of the Empress, some water scenes here and some more city scenes, then off on a ferry to my home town Vancouver! They of course go to Stanley Park and no place else (sigh). Tea House, totems, Taft memorial, yep yep yep, then they go somewhere else (defintely not Vancouver!) to see a rather large blimp launch, some more picnicking and merrimacking, and then to…