UPDATE: I talked to the box office this morning (11/18) and they only had one ticket left. Quick sell out! They always post the full film online after the screening so rest assured you’ll be able to watch it. Rick P. also left a comment saying there will be a limited number of walk-up tickets at the screening – SB
Tickets are now on sale for the fifth installment of “Lost Landscapes of San Francisco”, a film series that presents an eclectic montage of rarely-seen film clips showing life, landscapes, labor and leisure in old San Francisco as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers.
I went to least year’s screening and was enthralled. As a San Francisco native, I was charmed by the old footage showing labor demonstrations, home movies taken among our residential streets, industrial films showing workers building the Bay Bridge, and other random scenes of daily life in the city by the Bay.
Watch last year’s Lost Landscapes 4 in it entirety
On hand at the screening are local history experts who narrate the film and provide color commentary, like where and when in the city the footage was shot. This year’s edition includes footage of test flights over the unbuilt dunes of the Sunset District, Prohibition-era libertines partying in Golden Gate Park and drinking in their cars, lost travelogues and scenes from San Francisco countercultures.
Lost Landscapes is put together by guerrilla archivist Rick Prelinger (recent profile in the SF Chronicle) who, with his wife, runs the Prelinger Library downtown (open Wednesdays).
The screening for “Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 5” takes place at the Herbst Theater on December 16 at 7pm. Tickets are only $10 and sell out fast, so don’t delay. It’s a night that any San Franciscan will enjoy, I promise!
Sarah B.
Long Now tells me that a limited number of walk-up tickets will be available at the screening; you will probably have to wait in line. Sorry! I’ll present this again sometime next year.
Thanks Rick for the heads up!