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Cavalcade of San Francisco

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Cavalcade of San Francisco (1940)
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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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    • James A. FitzPatrick(voice)
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    This travelogue of San Francisco, California begins crossing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Toll Bridge into the title city, which is the most important city in Northern California as its gateway to the region. The city grew up from the missions built here in the late sixteenth century, the location being seen as favorable to the Fransicans. Because of this heritage, there are still many cathedrals dotted throughout the city. Perhaps the city's most famous landmark is the Golden Gate Bridge, the longest single span bridge in the world (at the time). The Palace of Fine Arts is a remnant of the World's Fair held in the city in 1915. Another exposition was held in 1939/40, the buildings constructed on a man-made island called Treasure Island. Another part of San Francisco's history centers on the gold rush of 1849, as the starting point of the Wells-Fargo stagecoach, and eventually of the Pacific Railway as well. —Huggo
    • year 1940
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    • Trivia
      Included on the Warner DVD of Go West (1940).
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      The 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.
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      Narrator: 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.

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      San Francisco
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      Music by Bronislau Kaper and Walter Jurmann

      Played often throughout the picture

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    James A. Fitzpatrick sends the Technicolor cameras north to San Francisco under the supervision of Robert Carney, and then banally orates about the city by the bay, as if there isn't a long-standing sense of rivalry between Angelenos and San Franciscans.

    San Francisco did not change much between the time this movie was shot and when I knew the city almost fifty years later: a little dirtier, and the palm trees which flourished so absurdly in summer's 40 degrees Fahrenheit mornings a little taller, but basically unchanged. Even then the absurdity of the city, its insistence on nostalgic pageantry and the municipal roller coaster -- the cable cars -- made it seem more like an amusement park tha a working city. Apparently the same impulse was present when this short was made.
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    • Release date
      • September 28, 1940 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • James A. FitzPatrick's Traveltalks: Cavalcade of San Francisco
    • Filming locations
      • San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco Bay, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • Runtime
      9 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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