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San Francisco, California

Item number (ISN):

331679

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1932

Item number (ISN):

331679

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

SMITH, Ken

Accession:

1978-0286

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1932

Production company:

Russell E. Coupland (Photographer)

Production credit:

photography, Russell E. Coupland

Description:

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Silent unedited footage of a trip to California, including San Francisco, by Canadian athletes, probably members of the Canadian cycling team, and their families. It shows: building with flags and Olympic rings on it; cars dating from 1920s or early 1930s; outdoor shots of men and women in Canadian sports team blazers; city streets; empty stands of an outdoor stadium; pan of team members; close-up of man; another pan of team; empty stands in background. building; boat with name Catalina on it; view of shoreline and many buildings on hilly terrain; small boats and larger ships on the water; pan shot of buildings on shore; people on ship’s gangplank; close-up of ship; shots of harbour and docked ship; people walk along a boardwalk; gateway in background with sign that reads Casino Way; people in bathing suits walking and in the water; an airplane overhead; close-up of seal swimming; cyclists in a stadium racing toward the camera, probably in a training run; pan of stadium; ship; people on deck of ship; women stand on deck, looking at the water; more ships; hilly shoreline; seabirds perched briefly on a mast or pole; pan of shoreline; close-ups of people on ship; large domed building; urban scenes, showing tall buildings, pedestrians, cars and streetcars; large rectangular pool; several people standing near the pool; cars parked nearby; tall antenna on a building; tall buildings; pan down to cars, streetcars and pedestrians on city street; more shots of people on ship’s deck; ship in water; shot of a ship’s wake; other ships in the water; two men on shore; pan of buildings; lake; scenery filmed from a moving train; and more city scenes. Among the buildings shown is the San Mateo Theatre. <7mn>

Language:

Silent

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Vault ISN:

364183

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8105-0387

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

8105-0388

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

364184

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8105-0388

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8007-0628
8007-0629
8007-0630
8007-0631

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

364959

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8007-0628

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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with written permission of copyright owner : with credit to Russell E. Coupland and Ken Smith

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