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Ephemeral film · 6 min

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Running time
6 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★★ · Stocks move! · Spuzz · 2013-01-09

Thought Ransohoff was a name of an individual who owned this collection, but actually Ransohoff here is the name of a store. Looking it up on the internet, it was the name of a department store in San Francisco that closed in 1979. This film however, looks to have been in the 1930's. Odd that there's hardly any mention of this store on the web, history or otherwise. We see footage of (I guess) a move to a new location further down the street. Some racks are clothes are moved, and the rest is just women and a few men hamming it up for the camera. Quite fun actually.