Home Movie: Ziegler Collection: 000046 (silent)

Description: An intimate and muddy look at the effort to build a foundation for the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge during the early construction year of 1934. With closeup sequences of a diver tethered to an air line emerging from the dark waters and crews using shovels, hoes, and pickaxes for excavation.

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Subjects: 1930s, Construction, Labor, Infrastructure, Water

Tags: Golden Gate Bridge; construction; bridges; mechanical engineering; concrete mixing truck; piers; floating docks; barriers; panoramic views; men riding the winch wire on the crane; diver in suit being pulled up out of water; 1930s diving gear; 1930s mechanical infrastructure; ship passing through Golden Gate; gulls; towers; sailboats; filmed from moving vehicle; filmed from boat; digging; shoveling mud from Bay bottom; Bay mud; San Francisco Bay; hip waders; Lost Landscapes; construction divers; cranes; film deterioration; warped film; diving helmet; scaffolding; pouring cement into bay; bridge tower; small temporary buildings at base of bridge tower; Marin Headlands; men using pickaxes and shovels; drained water; temporary dam; cofferdams; dams;

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Creator: Ziegler Family

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Ziegler Collection PC-0275, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

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

Production Date: 1934

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

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: none

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 288