Home Movie: Charles Edward Smith Collection: 000470 (silent, sound)

Description: Well-photographed San Francisco scenes including extensive footage of Chinatown with neon signs at night, Chinese New Year, a performance of the Foo Hsing Chinese Opera, and the Republican National Convention in July 1964.

Note that there is a section in the middle of the reel with magnetic sound that has not been transferred. This transfer is entirely silent.

Can marked:
"San Francisco 9-63 --".

Notes in can state:
"San Francisco - Reel 7 / 1. Civic Center - Oct. 1963 / a. City Hall & Plaza / b. Market Street at Van Ness Ave. / 2. View from Home: 12 W. Clay Park - Oct 1963 / [Golden Gate Straits] / 3. Chinatown - Feb. 1964 / 1. Chinatown by Day / b. Chinese New Year Parade / c. Chinatown by Night / d. Foo Hsing Chinese Opera / 4. Republican Convention, July 1964 / Union Square Vicinity."

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Subjects: 1960s, Cities, Parades and processions, Performances, Asian and Pacific Islander history and culture, Politics and government

Tags: San Francisco Civic Center; San Francisco City Hall; Civic Center fountain; American flags; Market Street at Van Ness Ave.; cable cars; streetcars; Cinerama Theater marquee; "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" on marquee; San Francisco Municipal Railway vehicles; Marin Headlands; Sea Cliff neighborhood; Golden Gate Bridge; Golden Gate Straits; Presidio of San Francisco; Chinatown San Francisco; Grant Avenue; finger in front of lens; city scenes; Chinese American people; Asian American people; street traffic; flags; street banners; neon signs at night; Clay Grant Pharmacy sign; Kong Chow Association; lion dance; performances; Foo Hsing Chinese Opera; "The Lady from Maine Margaret Chase Smith" sign; political conventions; 1964 Republican National Convention; television cameras; National Broadcasting Company bus; NBC television broadcasting van; Powell Street; The St. Francis Hotel; Union Square San Francisco; ladies' hats; Chandler's; Sheraton Palace Hotel sign; No Left Turn sign; crosswalks; traffic lights; foot traffic; pedestrians; Powell & Market Cable Car Turntable; downtown San Francisco street scenes; streetcar platforms on Market Street; Woolworth's; Lost Landscapes; Gin Wah Co. Art Goods neon sign; camera operator with television camera on top of bus; Market Street scenes

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Creator: Charles Edward Smith

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Charles Edward Smith Collection PC-0020, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1963; 1964

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Geographical Location: USA; California; San Francisco, California; San Francisco Bay

Genre/Form: home movie, amateur

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: original, reversal, positive

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent, sound

Film Soundtrack Type: magnetic stripe

Edge Code: circle triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 300