Lost Landscapes Of San Francisco (Episode 14, 2019)

Genre: compilation

Year Published: 2019

Creator: Rick Prelinger

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: COMBINING a year of exciting archival discoveries with evergreen favorites from past years, this feature-length program shows San Francisco’s people, neighborhoods, infrastructures and celebrations from the early 20th century through the 1980s. New sequences this year run the gamut from the noirish streets of downtown San Francisco in the 1940s to life in the lively Mission, Richmond, Sunset, Bernal Heights and Ingleside Terrace districts.; ALSO IN THE WORKS: Bits of San Francisco bohemia, psychedelia and punk, newly discovered footage of the late, lamented Sky Tram and the unlamented Bayside Motel and Embarcadero Freeway, workers horsing around on the Rainier Beer loading dock in 1937, transit infrastructure, snowball fights, a hobo by the zoo, newly discovered amateur Cinemascope footage from the 1950s, the building of I-280, San Francisco’s publicly owned electrical generation system, San Francisco’s cemeteries emptied of their dead, and many intimate glimpses of family life in Latinx, Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, African American, and European communities in San Francisco.