Amateur film: Golden Gate International Exposition
Ephemeral film · 10 min
Synopsis
Amateur pictures, including aerials and color shot from ground level, of the San Francisco World's Fair on Treasure Island.
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★★★★★ · Scones for 10 cents! · Spuzz · 2005-11-06
This is instantly the best of the Golden Gate films strictly for the reason that it seems to go beyond the same architecture we see in all the other films. I mean, this has a midway! Rides! Restaraunts! I was wondering earlier about whether this fair HAD signage at all, but luckily, this film shows more then the usual, and that makes this film 10 times more interesting, it even has aerial footage and some nighttime footage too! I wonder if this DOES qualify under amateur though, I mean, where did the airplane footage come from? Despite this film being banged up, this is really a treasure, and…
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