For those of us who weren’t able to get tickets to the showing in December, you can now watch the entire fifth installment of Lost Landscapes online. It’s a fantastic collection of film bits from the yesteryears of San Francisco.
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, the Fleishacker Pool (shown above), Legion of Honor, 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).
Sarah B.