Home Movies: "San Francisco" (1950)

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Title: "San Francisco" Cable car rides downhill, down Powell Street, past Sears Fine Foods sign. looking up Powell street north of Sutter. pan of Nob Hill Cathedral and hotels. Title: "Frisco from the Top of the Mark" Title: "Market Street and Cable Cars" pan of Telegraph Hill and North Beach, also piers and waterfront. looking down on Nob Hill rooftops. of Alcatraz Street-level of California Street Cable car cresting the hill at California and Mason (?) IFO the Mark Hopkins Street-level looking up narrow Russian Hill street with cars approaching. Cable car Broadway Tunnel with sign for Alfred's visible. long-ish shot of cars entering and exiting tunnel (Chinatown side). Coit Tower fire department memorial. Skyline, power lines view from Washington Square Park. Fisherman's wharf: tourist visit to parked huge sail ship, the Balclutha. Parked ocean liner steaming. Bayfront views: long shots of Alcatraz fully built with buildings, guard towers, water towers. Sailboats on the bay. Ferry boat on the bay. People pole fishing from the waterfront. Another view of the Balclutha. POVs of Fisherman's wharf landscapes: Parked cars, parked sailboats, Cable cars going past the Buena Vista, and also being turned around at the foot of Hyde Street. Historic street cars on market street passing Grayson's shoes San Francisco's Downtown Shopping Center sign on building side. Cable car turnaround at foot of Powell street with Woolworth's in view, Bank of America tower. O'Farrell street: View of…

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17 minutes

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Prelinger Archives

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