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One of gay filmmaker Harold T. O'Neal's earliest films, this is a full-color panorama of San Francisco in 1940.

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beautiful footage ... ( 2 years ago by gaspardw)

beautiful footage material

Thanks for sharing ... ( 1 year ago by SFBA4me)

Thanks for sharing this bit of history. I'd forgotten the Heinz 57 sign greeting people coming into the City from the east. And the panorama shots from Coit Tower are treasures.

fantastic footage, ... ( 1 year ago by Resenbrink)

fantastic footage, thanks.

So amazing!:D ( 1 year ago by bunnybooties)

So amazing!:D

Excellent ... ( 1 year ago by Clembo1957)

Excellent historical footage of my favourite city!

Why do you have to ... ( 1 year ago by snarbush)

Why do you have to note that he was gay? He's a human being like the rest of us.

Thank you. ( 1 year ago by glbthistory)

Thank you.

I am very glad I ... ( 1 year ago by actionfigures95)

I am very glad I stumbled across this. Very interesting. Thank you.

Thank you so much ... ( 1 year ago by MrHastyRib)

Thank you so much for sharing this marvelous piece of SF history with us. I am a SF resident; I watched it twice and was utterly charmed. And thank you also for noting the contributions of gays and lesbians to our common American cultural heritage.

Many thanks for ... ( 1 year ago by glbthistory)

Many thanks for your kind words.

Very nostalgic for ... ( 1 year ago by PattPatter)

Very nostalgic for me! Joined Navy in 1941 and San Francisco was one of my most favorite ports. Especially nostalgic when I saw short clip of the Bal Tabarin restaurant. Had my first restaurant date with my first girl friend in that fabulous spot. Wish it were still there. Patt Patter, Retired Navy Chief

Your comments are ... ( 1 year ago by glbthistory)

Your comments are appreciated and greatly add to the value of this document.

GREAT video! The ... ( 1 year ago by 1MSR)

GREAT video! The green & cream colors on some of the streetcars and cable cars date the material as being from the late 1940's. Any other clues as to the actual date?

We invite you to be ... ( 1 year ago by glbthistory)

We invite you to be a history detective and to visit the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco to examine for yourself the reels from Harold T. O'Neal's remarkable collection. His many films are meticulously dated (he was a technology geek of his day), both on the reels and often (as is the case with this one) with on-screen titles.

An invaluable ... ( 1 year ago by smurfswacker)

An invaluable record of my favorite city! Glimpses of everyday people doing everyday things in old "home movies" (not meant as a disparaging term) do so much to restore life to an earlier world. Instead of cold, distant history we see a world of living, breathing souls--it's like seeing the way today's world looked "when it was a kid."

It amazes me that ... ( 10 months ago by trewqwert)

It amazes me that this is merely 35 years after the 1905 "trip down Market Street".

wow those statue ... ( 10 months ago by pf91rodman)

wow those statue things next to the exploritorium is that old?

If they are what I ... ( 10 months ago by glbthistory)

If they are what I think you're refering to, they're from the 1915 S.F. Exposition. They were part of a large campus of structures, most of which were torn down later.

interesting. Don't ... ( 5 months ago by jojobug45)

interesting. Don't mean to change the topic, but I am curious why color film could be around back in 1940 ( and earlier), making this footage look like it could have been taken today, yet tv shows were still in b&w 20-25 years after this footage?

Kodak introduced ... ( 4 months ago by bellashess)

Kodak introduced Kodachrome color film for home movies and still picutres in the mid-nineteen-thirties. This was the first practicle type of color film that was mass-marketed. I'd guess that black-and-white television cameras were still used in the 20-25 years after this footage was filmed was because color television cameras, which were introduced by 1953, were alot more expensive to operate and therefore black-and-white T.V. cameras were cost effective.

That, AND the ... ( 2 months ago by ellemueller)

That, AND the various colour films for television cameras were more expensive. All around, it was more expensive.
In Addition to THAT, who in the world had a colour television but the richest? It'd be pointless to shoot colour film which is too expensive when no one is going to see anything in colour.
However, the kodachrome was portrayed on a screen in anyone's house, so as long as one had a projector to play the standard film type, everyone was happy enough with the results.

Colour film was ... ( 2 months ago by machineamsterdam)

Colour film was used everywhere by 1940. Look for film footage from Nazi Germany for example. Recent television documentaries on the BBC show its usage in 1930s Britain too. On the date of this footage ... notice one caption says the summer, and the San Francisco Call newspaper headlines say HOSPITAL BABES SLAIN ... correct me if I am wrong ... now to search for the Call banner with that story and you have the exact date.

Obviously you've ... ( 1 month ago by Barndancer61)

Obviously you've never seen "Gone With the Wind" or "The Wizard of OZ" both shot in technicolour and both before 1940.

Send us some video ... ( 2 weeks ago by glbthistory)

Send us some video of Providence. A lovely town, I've enjoyed visiting there.

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