275 Capp Street
San Francisco, California 94110

Event: “Shot in San Francisco”.  Curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an all-new program of vintage 16mm films focused on our beautiful city by the bay. Long lost sights and sounds, some amazingly well preserved, and everywhere parents, grandparents and great-grandparents in their prime. Highlights include: Historic San Francisco Clip Reels (c. 1910-1940), an amazing assortment of early San Francisco scenes; Be-In, 1967 freak-out filmed in Golden Gate Park; First Television Broadcast in San Francisco (1948), very rare early TV in the town where it was invented!; City of San Francisco (c. 1950), gorgeous black and white travelogue of familiar scenes with more than a hint of nostalgia; plus one-of-a-kind color footage of the Big Dipper at Playland at the Beach being dismantled in 1955 and more surprises! Wear some flowers, leave your heart, and open your Golden Gate!!
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010 at 8:30PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 RSVP Only to: 415-558-8117 or [email protected]
Web: http://www.oddballfilm.com/oddballftp/Shot_in_SF2_PR.pdf

"Shot in San Francisco”
Screens at Oddball Films

On Friday, September 24, Curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of vintage films and clips shot in or around our beautiful city. A love letter to the past, see how it really was (and occasionally still is)!
Showtime is 8:30PM and admission is $10.00. Seating is limited so RSVP is preferred to: [email protected] or 415-558-8117.

Highlights Include:

Historic San Francisco Clip Reels (B+W, c. 1910-1940)
Early days of San Francisco captured on celluloid, including a news reel about building the Hetch Hetchy Dam- still the major source of our delicious drinking water, Fisherman’s Wharf when fishermen still figured in the picture, “Pageant of San Francisco”- a dramatic take on the early settlers and founding of the city, an actual Wells Fargo stage coach in (re-enactment) action, the 1916 bombing the killed 10 people on Market Street, the building of Sutro House, the esplanade at Ocean Beach, the Cliff House roadway and bathers at Ocean Beach, downtown shots, early Golden Gate Park, and much, much more!

Be-In (Dir. Jerry Abrams, Color, 1967)
An impressionistic document of the January 14, 1967 San Francisco Human Be-In, held in Golden Gate Park, that solidified the psychedelic movement. Captured in the moment are Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsburg, Michael McClure Lenore Kandel and Timothy Leary, with glimpses of the Grateful Dead and 10,000 peace and lovemaking freaks. Music by psych-blues heavies Blue Cheer (named after a particularly heavy batch of LSD).

First Television Broadcast in San Francisco, 1948 (B+W)
Witness this early television broadcast in all it’s kitschy splendor as WXJD San Francisco telecasts live from the St Francis Hotel. This program features a hit parade of local luminaries, a beauty pageant, a caricature artist, a female accordion player, piano playing, juggling marionettes and dancing chicken puppets, an appliance demonstration, a magician, socialites and more as the first live telecast hits the airwaves in San Francisco. A true rarity. Silent with added sound.

City of San Francisco (B+W, c. 1950)
Beautiful silent travelogue of the City By the Bay.

Plus! One-of-a-kind footage of the 1955 dismantling of the Big Dipper- the beloved roller coaster at Playland at the Beach in stunning Kodachrome color and more!

Official Website: http://mim.io/e4bc5

Added by chasgaudi on September 19, 2010

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