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San Francisco Home Movies (1925)

1925 · Ephemeral film · 3 min

Synopsis

Home movies of San Francisco and Oakland: a California Street cable car, Chinatown, the harbor, Golden Gate Park and the Steinhart Aquarium, the Ferry Building and ferries, the USS Pennsylvania crossing the bay, and Lake Merritt.

Synopsis, reviewed

Details

Running time
3 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · Up and around · Spuzz · 2015-12-20

Good home movie footage of SF and area. Has title cards that somewhat help, but are pretty vague. Not bad photography, but I've seen better "travelogues" of SF elsewhere. I did like that ferry scene though.