A Technicolor travelogue celebrating San Francisco - past and presentA Technicolor travelogue celebrating San Francisco - past and presentA Technicolor travelogue celebrating San Francisco - past and present
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Did you know
- TriviaIncluded on the MGM DVD of San Francisco (1936).
- GoofsThe narrator states that "gold was discovered near San Francisco in 1849". The gold discovery that started the California Gold Rush occurred on January 24, 1848 in Coloma, about 110 miles northeast of San Francisco.
- Quotes
James A. FitzPatrick: [narrating a pageant about California pioneers] Courageous, determined people were these pioneers, braving long and extreme hardships with nothing to sustain them but faith - faith in their God, and faith in the potentialities of the Golden West.
- SoundtracksSan Francisco
(uncredited)
Music by Bronislau Kaper and Walter Jurmann
Played often throughout the picture
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The Big Show
James A. Fitzpatrick sends the Technicolor cameras north to San Francisco under the supervision of Robert Carney, and then banally orates about the city by the bay, as if there isn't a long-standing sense of rivalry between Angelenos and San Franciscans.
San Francisco did not change much between the time this movie was shot and when I knew the city almost fifty years later: a little dirtier, and the palm trees which flourished so absurdly in summer's 40 degrees Fahrenheit mornings a little taller, but basically unchanged. Even then the absurdity of the city, its insistence on nostalgic pageantry and the municipal roller coaster -- the cable cars -- made it seem more like an amusement park tha a working city. Apparently the same impulse was present when this short was made.
San Francisco did not change much between the time this movie was shot and when I knew the city almost fifty years later: a little dirtier, and the palm trees which flourished so absurdly in summer's 40 degrees Fahrenheit mornings a little taller, but basically unchanged. Even then the absurdity of the city, its insistence on nostalgic pageantry and the municipal roller coaster -- the cable cars -- made it seem more like an amusement park tha a working city. Apparently the same impulse was present when this short was made.
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- James A. FitzPatrick's Traveltalks: Cavalcade of San Francisco
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- Runtime9 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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