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
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Music by Bronislau Kaper and Walter Jurmann
Played often throughout the picture
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A cavalcade celebrating faith in the potential of the Golden West...
This is a colorful James A. FitzPatrick TravelTalk featuring a look at San Francisco (circa 1940), with views of several landmarks, including the Oakland Bay Toll Bridge completed in 1936 at a cost of $77 million and a gateway to Northern California; glimpse of a 1769 Spanish mission built by the Franciscan Fathers; a stunning view of the Golden Gate Bridge, the world's longest single span bridge; and culminating in scenes from a World's Fair exposition in 1939 that was a cavalcade of the Golden West.
The pageantry includes covered wagons showing pioneers from the east making their way westward in caravans with nothing more than faith in the potential of the Golden West; the Wells Fargo stagecoach establishing contact between east and west; the advent of the Iron Horse and the meeting of the Union Pacific with Central Pacific; and finally, views of San Francisco at the turn of the 19th century.
Summing up: Well done documentary with many points of interest.
The pageantry includes covered wagons showing pioneers from the east making their way westward in caravans with nothing more than faith in the potential of the Golden West; the Wells Fargo stagecoach establishing contact between east and west; the advent of the Iron Horse and the meeting of the Union Pacific with Central Pacific; and finally, views of San Francisco at the turn of the 19th century.
Summing up: Well done documentary with many points of interest.
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- Doylenf
- May 10, 2008
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- James A. FitzPatrick's Traveltalks: Cavalcade of San Francisco
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- Runtime9 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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