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    Vertigo Catalog Record Only Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia--that is vertigo or dizziness in high places. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes obsessive in...
    • Contributor: Jones, Henry - McA Home Video (Firm) - Boileau, Pierre - Hitchcock, Alfred - Helmore, Tom - Taylor, Samuel - Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions - Coppel, Alec - Novak, Kim - Bel Geddes, Barbara - Stewart, James
    • Date: 1984
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    Over route of Roosevelt parade in an automobile This film is a review by automobile of the arrival parade route of President Theodore Roosevelt, on Tuesday, May 12, 1903. The film was shot from about 2:10 pm to 2:15 pm (shortly before the 3 pm parade) and shows street and building decorations and excited crowds. The portion of the route shown is in the heart of the downtown business district. The later...
    • Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Miles, Herbert J.
    • Date: 1903
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    Wide wide world. America's heritage
    Heritage | Wide wide world Catalog Record Only
    Features live remote segments from locations throughout North America, with narration by Dave Garroway. This episode features segments from New Orleans, Louisiana and the Bayou country; the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia, Grandma Moses painting and other scenes and landmarks in New York City, the old sailing ship, Balclutha, and other scenes and landmarks in San Francisco, and Carlsbad Caverns in...
    • Contributor: Garroway, Dave - Wood, Barry - Keith, Hal - NBC Television Collection (Library of Congress) - Rodman, Howard - Schneider, Dick - Broekman, David
    • Date: 1955
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    Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916 This collection consists of twenty-six films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916. Seventeen of the films depict San Francisco and its environs before the 1906 disaster. Seven films describe the great earthquake and fire. The two later films include a 1915 travelogue that shows scenes of the rebuilt city and a tour of the Panama Pacific Exposition...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
    • Date: 1999

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    Clinton Miller McMahan Collection Lieutenant Junior Grade, Navy, World War, 1939-1945 - San Francisco; Hollandia, New Guinea; Palau; Japan; Philippines; Pacific Theater.
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    San Francisco's future By mid-1916, after viewing the carnage in Europe, the United States saw itself poised with great reluctance on the edge of participation in World War I. Isolationism and anti-preparedness feeling remained strong in San Francisco, not only among radicals such as the International Workers of the Worlds ("the Wobblies"), but also among responsible labor leaders. At the same time, with the rise of Bolshevism...
    • Contributor: Rodiester, Claire - Hearst, Phoebe Apperson - Afi/Post (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Rolph, James
    • Date: 1916
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    Birth of a community Jews & the Gold Rush
    Jews & the Gold Rush | Jews and the Gold Rush Catalog Record Only
    This program relates the history of Jewish pioneers to California during the Gold Rush, outlining their reasons for coming, and their way of life once they arrived. The history of early Jewish settlements in San Francisco and Sacramento, and in Gold Rush mining communities is explored.
    • Contributor: Chayes, Bill - Carlin, Joy - Friedman, Elisabeth D. (Elisabeth Deborah) - Ergo Media Inc - Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum
    • Date: 1996
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    Vertigo Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia--that is vertigo or dizziness in high places. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes obsessive in...
    • Contributor: Jones, Henry - Paramount Pictures Corporation - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Boileau, Pierre - Hitchcock, Alfred - Helmore, Tom - Taylor, Samuel - Universal Pictures (Firm) - Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions - Coppel, Alec - Novak, Kim - Bel Geddes, Barbara - Stewart, James
    • Date: 1984
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    City confidential. San Francisco : betrayal by the bay
    San Francisco : Catalog Record Only
    During an evening in 1991, Artie Mitchell was shot with a high-powered rifle by his brother Jim. The Mitchells were the kings of the porn empire in San Francisco, and Jim said he killed Artie because he as taking his lifestyle too far.
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Winfield, Paul
    • Date: 1999
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    Market Street before parade
    Variant title from Biograph production logs: Route of parade previous arrival of Pres. Roosevelt | Variant title from Biograph production logs: Route of president's parade
    This film is an automobile tour of a portion of the arrival parade route of President Theodore Roosevelt along Market Street, San Francisco, on Tuesday, May 12, 1903. The film was shot in the mid-afternoon, shortly before the parade, which traversed this portion of the route in the reverse direction shown here. The earlier portion of the route is seen in the film "Over...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Miles, Herbert J.
    • Date: 1903
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    The Maltese falcon Catalog Record Only Hard-boiled San Francisco private detectives, Sam Spade and Miles Archer, are offered a large retainer by a "Miss Wonderly" to protect her from a man named Floyd Thursby. The detectives believe neither Miss Wonderly nor her story, but they believe her money. Archer saw her first, so he takes the case. Later that evening he is shot to death, as is the mysterious Thursby....
    • Contributor: George, Gladys - Cook, Elisha - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Bond, Ward - Warner Bros. Pictures - Cowan, Jerome - Deutsch, Adolph - Astor, Mary - Wallis, Hal B. - Haas, Robert ... George, Gladys - Cook, Elisha - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Bond, Ward - Warner Bros. Pictures - Cowan, Jerome - Deutsch, Adolph - Astor, Mary - Wallis, Hal B. - Haas, Robert - Richards, Thomas - Huston, John - Edeson, Arthur - Bogart, Humphrey - Turner Entertainment Co - Maclane, Barton - Forbstein, Leo F. - Hammett, Dashiell - Blanke, Henry - Patrick, Lee - Greenstreet, Sydney - Lorre, Peter
    • Date: 1986
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    Protecting San Francisco from fire Catalog Record Only Copyright: no reg. Beginning and end titles, some intertitles and parts of picture lacking; nitrate deterioration printed through. Title from intertitle; verified by synopisis in Bioscope, 4-9-1914, supplement, p. xxvii. Alternate title per Bioscope: Protecting 'Frisco from fire. Production company from logo on intertitle; verfied in Lahue and Brewer's Kops and custards, p. 143; director also from that source. Releasing company and date from...
    • Contributor: Keystone Film Company - Mutual Film Corporation - Public Archives of Canada/Dawson City Collection (Library of Congress) - Lehrman, Henry
    • Date: 1913
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    Screen telegram. No. 1 Catalog Record Only A company name appears on film, but is illegible. Parts of picture and end title lacking; nitrate deterioration printed through. Dawson no. 124. Sources used: Fielding's The American newsreel 1911-1967, p. 153; Moving picture world, v. 39, p. 548.
    • Contributor: Public Archives of Canada/Dawson City Collection (Library of Congress) - Universal Film Manufacturing Company - International Newsreel Corporation
    • Date: 1919
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    Armistead Maupin's tales of the city. Part 1
    Tales of the city Catalog Record Only
    Tales of the city chronicles the adventures of Mary Ann Singleton, a young secretary from Cleveland who takes a vacation to San Francisco and decides to stay. Set in 1976, the story depicts the city at the height of its boisterous gay, drug and disco cultures through the eyes of the innocent heroine.
    • Contributor: LC Off-Air Taping Collection (Library of Congress) - Kramer, Richard - Webb, Chloe - Linney, Laura - Dukakis, Olympia - Reid, Alastair - Moffat, Donald - Maupin, Armistead
    • Date: 1994
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    A.K.A. Don Bonus
    AKA Don Bonus Catalog Record Only
    A self-portrait of a young Cambodian immigrant growing up in the United States. Shot by Sokly Ny himself, it shows his struggles to graduate and survive his complicated life during his senior year of high school.
    • Contributor: Nakasako, Spencer - Ny, Sokly - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - National Asian American Telecommunications Association
    • Date: 1998
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    Birth of a community Jews & the Gold Rush
    Jews & the Gold Rush | Jews and the Gold Rush Catalog Record Only
    This program relates the history of Jewish pioneers to California during the Gold Rush, outlining their reasons for coming, and their way of life once they arrived. The history of early Jewish settlements in San Francisco and Sacramento, and in Gold Rush mining communities is explored.
    • Contributor: Chayes, Bill - Carlin, Joy - Friedman, Elisabeth D. (Elisabeth Deborah) - Ergo Media Inc - Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum
    • Date: 1996
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    The San Francisco disaster
    Formerly titled: Unidentified Staples & Charles. No. 1, San Francisco after the earthquake and fire of 1906 | Title in Lubin catalog 1907: San Francisco earthquake
    This film is made up of five panoramas, four wide and one close-up, of the ruins of downtown San Francisco shortly after the 1906 disaster, including a panorama and scene in a refugee camp. Note that the locations provided in the interior titles are incorrect for segments 1, 3, and 4. "Panorama of City Hall from Top of U.S. Mint." This right-to-left (north-to-northwest) panorama...
    • Contributor: Frawley, Jack - S. Lubin (Firm : Philadelphia, Pa.)
    • Date: 1906
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    Curtis Alfred Adkins Collection Sergeant, Marine Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - Parris Island, South Carolina; Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; San Francisco; New Zealand; Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands); Australia; New Guinea; New Britain Island (Bismarck Archipelago); Pacific Theater; China.
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    Scene in Chinatown This film was shot in an alley of San Francisco's Chinatown on Saturday, September 15, 1900, at midday. The topography of the site (sloping down to the far street), the width of the alley, the location of utility poles [Frame: 0255], and the location of buildings across the far street suggest that the view is north from Washington Street down Washington Place (today's Wentworth...
    • Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Ackerman, Raymond - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1900
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    Armistead Maupin's tales of the city. Part 3
    Tales of the city Catalog Record Only
    Tales of the city chronicles the adventures of Mary Ann Singleton, a young secretary from Cleveland who takes a vacation to San Francisco and decides to stay. Set in 1976, the story depicts the city at the height of its boisterous gay, drug and disco cultures through the eyes of the innocent heroine.
    • Contributor: LC Off-Air Taping Collection (Library of Congress) - Kramer, Richard - Webb, Chloe - Linney, Laura - Dukakis, Olympia - Reid, Alastair - Moffat, Donald - Maupin, Armistead
    • Date: 1994
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    Robert Lawrence Stipsak Collection Sergeant, Army Air Forces/Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - Biloxi, Mississippi; Illinois; Utah; San Francisco.
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    The Maltese falcon Catalog Record Only Hard-boiled San Francisco private detectives, Sam Spade and Miles Archer, are offered a large retainer by a "Miss Wonderly" to protect her from a man named Floyd Thursby. The detectives believe neither Miss Wonderly nor her story, but they believe her money. Archer saw her first, so he takes the case. Later that evening he is shot to death, as is the mysterious Thursby....
    • Contributor: Blanke, Henry - Greenstreet, Sydney - Bogart, Humphrey - Cook, Elisha - Wallis, Hal B. - Patrick, Lee - CBS Fox Video - George, Gladys - Bond, Ward - Haas, Robert ... Blanke, Henry - Greenstreet, Sydney - Bogart, Humphrey - Cook, Elisha - Wallis, Hal B. - Patrick, Lee - CBS Fox Video - George, Gladys - Bond, Ward - Haas, Robert - Maclane, Barton - Richards, Thomas - Forbstein, Leo F. - Lorre, Peter - Warner Bros. Pictures - Cowan, Jerome - Astor, Mary - Huston, John - Deutsch, Adolph - Edeson, Arthur - Hammett, Dashiell
    • Date: 1982
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    Gentleman Jim Catalog Record Only LP11685 PA575-416 (Colorized version) U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 14Nov42; LP11685. Minor change version: [Colorized version]. -- United States : Turner Entertainment Co., 1992. Copyright for minor change version: Turner Entertainment Company. NM: colorization. DCR 1991; PUB 24Mar92; REG 26May92; PA575-416. Director of photography, Sid Hickox ; film editor, Jack Killifer ; music by H. Roemheld. Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack...
    • Contributor: Smith, Alexis - Lawrence, Vincent - McCoy, Horace - Warner Bros. Pictures - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Flynn, Errol - First National Pictures, Inc - Walsh, Raoul - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Carson, Jack - United Artists Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1942
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    San Francisco Chinese funeral Shows most of the ceremonial portion of the funeral procession of Tom Kim Yung, military attache to the Chinese Legation to the United States. The camera looks slightly north of east across Dupont Street, the main street of Chinatown. All business in Chinatown was suspended for the day. Note the traditional ponytails, or queues, worn by Chinese men, a universal custom during the Quing...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
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    Armistead Maupin's tales of the city. Part 2
    Tales of the city Catalog Record Only
    Tales of the city chronicles the adventures of Mary Ann Singleton, a young secretary from Cleveland who takes a vacation to San Francisco and decides to stay. Set in 1976, the story depicts the city at the height of its boisterous gay, drug and disco cultures through the eyes of the innocent heroine.
    • Contributor: LC Off-Air Taping Collection (Library of Congress) - Kramer, Richard - Webb, Chloe - Linney, Laura - Dukakis, Olympia - Reid, Alastair - Moffat, Donald - Maupin, Armistead
    • Date: 1994