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Video of the Day: A tour of 1955 San Francisco
Today's featured video offers a rare glimpse at the city of San Francisco as it looked in 1955. Filmed by amateur filmmaker Tullio Pellegrini, the video provides a narrated tour of the city and its surroundings, complete with a gloriously vintage soundtrack. Pellegrini was also an inventor and tinkerer, and the video's quality is due to his merging of a 16mm Bell & Howell Cinemascope lens with Kodachrome film. This gem was recently discovered in the Prelinger Archives' collection of more than 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films. Watch and wait as the nostalgia hits you.
[via StreetsBlog]
Filed under: North America, United States, Photo of the Day, Video
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jeff T Jan 10th 2012 9:01PM
Great Film!!
It's crazy how most of SF looks exactly the same...aside from a few select neighborhoods like the Haight and the Tenderloin. And of course the cars and people...:)
Speaking about how some neighborhooods have changed...check out this one on the Tenderloin...a tour of homelessness???
http://thisboundlessworld.com/tours-of-san-francisco%E2%80%99s-most-dangerous-neighborhood-the-tenderloin
Rick Amoroso Jan 11th 2012 10:05AM
In my opinion the best way to see any city is to walk. You miss so much if you are on a bus or in a car.
http://purasilksite.com