New sequences this year include a spoof of San Francisco’s advertising industry in 1953; Native activists riding a boat to the Alcatraz occupation; family life in the Crocker-Amazon district; a hilarious film promoting the new Union Square Garage; men walking cables on the unfinished Bay Bridge; African American tourists in 1970 SF; elementary-school students doing science projects in 1957, the Year of Sputnik; surreal parade floats on Market Street; the Human Be-In in 1966; a whirlwind ride down Geary Boulevard, 1968; model rockets in Ingleside Terrace; the Stoneson organization building houses in 1941; a 1930s Japanese American family living atop a semi-rural Rincon Hill; and much, much more.
Next Monday night at 7:30pm, the Internet Archive (300 Funston) will host a screening of Rick Prelinger‘s 13th installment of Lost Landscapes San Francisco. Every Lost Landscapes screening is a hand-curated assortment of movie and film clips from old San Francisco, showing infrastructures, celebrations and people from the early 20th century through the 1970s.
AND, for the first time ever: a short subject precedes the show: the world theatrical premiere of a new high-resolution scan of the legendary pre-quake film “A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire” (filmed April 1906) made from the best existing material, showing detail that no audience has seen in over one hundred years.
As always during the screenings, there is no audio so the audience makes the soundtrack! Come prepared to identify places, people and events, to ask questions and to engage in spirited real-time repartee with fellow audience members.
Tickets are available online starting at $15. All proceeds from the event benefit Internet Archive, a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Sarah B.