Home Movies: Travels Including San Francisco (1951)

Synopsis

Totem pole; flowers; replica of old fort; bridge over a bay; elderly women standing; pans of a city; waterfront with steep slopes covered with pine trees; dam; "City of Tacoma" signs driving POV; visiting timber industry site with small home outdoor advertising; 2 nice billboards: Hi Ho crackers "All Out for Finer Flavor" and "Next Time Go Farther with Signal Gas" Chinatown in Washington state Christmas decorations on city street; nice 1950s downtown scenes sign: "Andersen's Original Home Split Pea Soup" San Francisco: Fisherman's Wharf with fishing boats Vista Del Mar restaurant (on Fisherman's Wharf) Gordon's Western Museum exteriors with wagons "Entering Virginia City" sign long pans (underexposed) of Virginia City main street Eastern Sierra scenics desert and hills Niagara Falls beach and shore of New England New England brick town streets with horsedrawn buggies giving rides waterfront of coastal town in Massachusetts or Connecticut with marshy waterfront and small boats grassy field with grazing cows and pigs steel suspension bridge across wide river Eastern Sierra or Wind River range of white-capped peaks pans of lush desert landscape, sagebrush hills with waterfalls car ferry with cars, on choppy water hillside of Indian Paint Brush in bloom Backyard with people, including man in silly jacket and two women with Labrador retriever and pink flamingo Looks like Pacific Northwest treescape in background; more fun with old ladies in print dresses

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Running time

15 minutes

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Prelinger Archives