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    Speaking in tongues Closely following four very different local public-schoolers through an academic year, [the producers] draw on subtle nuances of the kids' stories to illustrate the complex shades and permutations of bilingual schooling. Two children are placed in immersion programs to retain their native tongues while learning English, and the other two are in the reverse situation. Their parents list both familiar and surprising reasons for...
    • Contributor: Independent Television Service - Jarmel, Marcia - Schneider, Ken - Latino Public Broadcasting (Firm) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Center for Asian American Media - Patchworks Films
    • Date: 2010
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    All-American girl. The complete series A television show about a very Westernized Korean-American girl delightfully at odds with her traditional but screwy family in San Francisco.
    • Contributor: Long, Jodi - Kusatsu, Clyde - Wong, B. D. - Sony Bmg Music Entertainment - Touchstone Television - Cho, Margaret - Gold, Judy - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Ashley - Corman, Maddie - Quon, J. B. - Seder, Sam - Shout! Factory (Firm) - Hill, Amy
    • Date: 2006
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    The Maltese falcon 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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    Chan is missing Jo is a middle-aged taxi driver, and Jo's nephew Steve is a restless, gabby young man. In an effort to get their own taxi medallion, they have entrusted their savings, $4,000, to a man named Chan Hung, a wheeler-dealer from Taiwan, who has apparently absconded with the money. They search for Chan throughout the Chinatown of San Francisco. The more they find out about...
    • Contributor: Chin, Michael - Cronin, Isaac - Wang, Peter C. - Pacific Film Archive Collection (Library of Congress) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Hayashi, Marc - Seltzer, Terrel - New Yorker Films - Chew, Laureen - Tabios, Presco - Kikuchi-Yngojo, Robert - Moy, Wood - Wayne Wang Productions - Wang, Wayne
    • Date: 1982
  • personal narrative
    Maurice J. Blanchard Collection Navy, World War, 1939-1945 - Corpus Christi, Texas; Saint Louis, Missouri; San Francisco; Hawaii; Guam (Mariana Islands).
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    Fisherman's Wharf "Shows the wharf at San Francisco, Cal., with a large fleet of fishing boats at anchor. The crews are engaged in mending nets, arranging lines, etc., all of which lend action to the view. The figures are clear and life size, and the scene is truthfully reproduced"--F.Z. Maguire catalogue.
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
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    Charmed : the complete series
    Charmed
    "Charmed: the complete series contains all eight seasons of suspenseful drama, crafty humor and spellbinding effects plus brand-new special features ... Meet the beautiful and bewitching Halliwell sisters-- the vulnerable Prue (Shannen Doherty), who can magically move objects; the shy Piper (Holly Marie Combs), who is able to freeze time; and the uninhibited Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), who can see the future. These modern-day witches...
    • Contributor: Spelling Television, Inc - Paramount Pictures Corporation - Burge, Constance M. - Krause, Brian - CBS Dvd (Firm) - Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm) - Milano, Alyssa - Gregory, Dorian - Doherty, Shannen - King, Ted ... Spelling Television, Inc - Paramount Pictures Corporation - Burge, Constance M. - Krause, Brian - CBS Dvd (Firm) - Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm) - Milano, Alyssa - Gregory, Dorian - Doherty, Shannen - King, Ted - Vaughan, Greg - McGowan, Rose - Combs, Holly Marie - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - McMahon, Julian - Viacom Productions, Inc
    • Date: 2008
  • personal narrative
    Larry Buckmaster Collection Navy, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - San Diego, California; Treasure Island, California; San Francisco; Vietnam.
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    Armistead Maupin's tales of the city. Part 1
    Tales of the city
    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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    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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    Launch of surf boat
    Title in Edison films catalog, no. 105: Launching the surf boat | Variant title from Edison motion pictures 1890-1900: Launching of surf boat | Launch of a surf boat
    "The crew of seven dressed in cork jackets, push the boat through the surf; they clamber in and row out to the wreck. 50 ft."--Edison films catalog. "Pacific Coast Life Saving Service series: These subjects are illustrative of the work performed by the Life Saving Corps of the United States Government, and show the methods in vogue at one of the most important stations...
    • Contributor: White, James H. (James Henry) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - United States. Life-Saving Service - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Blechynden, Frederick - Fort Point Life-Saving Station (U.S.) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Revenue-Cutter Service
    • Date: 1897
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    Nash Bridges. The second season
    Nash Bridges
    "Nash Bridges is back with a second electrifying season of special investigations, car chases, shoot-outs, and, of course, ex-wife drama"--Container.
    • Contributor: Marin, Cheech - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm) - CBS Television Network - Rysher Entertainment - Johnson, Don - Perry, Jeff
    • Date: 2009
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    The Danny Kaye show. No. 61 Features several musical numbers, including two by guest Astrud Gilberto, one by the Earl Brown Singers, and one by Earl Brown singer Gary Coster. In sketches, shy Jerome tries to take charge when he gets stuck in an elevator with a hysterical woman (The elevator sketch / performed by Kaye and Nanette Fabray); and a saloon/music-hall owner's luck takes a turn for the worse...
    • Contributor: Mazursky, Paul - Korman, Harvey - CBS Television Network - Dena Pictures, Inc - Keller, Sheldon - Tolkin, Mel - Fabray, Nanette - Lafferty, Perry Francis - Tony Charmoli Dancers - Earl Brown Singers ... Mazursky, Paul - Korman, Harvey - CBS Television Network - Dena Pictures, Inc - Keller, Sheldon - Tolkin, Mel - Fabray, Nanette - Lafferty, Perry Francis - Tony Charmoli Dancers - Earl Brown Singers - Brown, Earl - Van Patten, Joyce - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Charmoli, Tony - Coster, Gary - Scheerer, Robert - Kaye (Danny)/FINE (Sylvia) Collection (Library of Congress) - Weston, Paul - Gilberto, Astrud - Kaye, Danny
    • Date: 1965
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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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    Return of lifeboat
    Title in Edison films catalog: Return of the life boat | Return of life boat
    "Shows a life boat coming through the breakers. The surf is high and the stout boat is tossed about like a cork. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog. "Pacific Coast Life Saving Service series: These subjects are illustrative of the work performed by the Life Saving Corps of the United States Government, and show the methods in vogue at one of the most important stations on...
    • Contributor: White, James H. (James Henry) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - United States. Life-Saving Service - Blechynden, Frederick - Fort Point Life-Saving Station (U.S.) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Revenue-Cutter Service
    • Date: 1897
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    Test In the gay Mecca of 1985 San Francisco, young Frankie negotiates the travails of being understudy in a modern dance troupe while enduring the shocks and changes of his relationship with a fellow dancer in the bewildering early days of the AIDS epidemic.
    • Contributor: Boomer, Evan - Sperber, Damon - Bell, Sidra - Johnson, Chris Mason - Cusick, Kristoffer - Serious Productions - Wolfe Video (Firm) - Risch, Matthew - Marlowe, Scott - Martin, Chris - Gloss Studio
    • Date: 2014
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    San Francisco Blackie Norton, owner of a cabaret in San Francisco's Barbary Coast district, hires small-town Mary Blake as a singer. They fall in love. When Mary moves from cabaret to opera house, Blackie is outraged. Mary then becomes engaged to Nob Hill aristocrat Jack Burley. The 1906 earthquake and fire strike, Burley is killed, Blackie finds belief in God, and Mary and Blackie are reunited.
    • Contributor: Stothart, Herbert - Turner Entertainment Co - Emerson, John - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Gable, Clark - Loos, Anita - Tracy, Spencer - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Gibbons, Cedric - Turner Entertainment Co. Collection (Library of Congress) - Van Dyke, W. S. - Macdonald, Jeanette - Hyman, Bernard H.
    • Date: 1936
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    Fishing smacks Taken at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, Cal., with a large fleet of fishing boats at anchor. From a single camera position, several small fishing vessels can be seen tied to the Wharf. Several men unload fish from the hold of the boat nearest to the camera.
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
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    Milk "Academy Award winner Sean Penn takes the title role in Gus Van Sant's biopic tracing the last eight years in the life of Harvey Milk, the ill-fated politician and gay activist whose life changed history, and whose courage still inspires people. When Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, he made history for being the first openly gay man...
    • Contributor: Luna, Diego - Hirsch, Emile - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Brolin, Josh - Focus Features - Penn, Sean - Groundswell Productions - Franco, James - Black, Dustin Lance - Jinks, Dan - Van Sant, Gus - Cohen, Bruce
    • Date: 2008
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    The other end of the line When a beautiful customer service operator in India falls for a charming American executive over the telephone, they're in for a serious case of mistaken cultural identity. With a penchant for all things American and a heart full of dreams, Priya flies to San Francisco to meet her destiny, and it looks like love at first sight. Now Priya and Granger must risk everything...
    • Contributor: Jackson, Tracey - Metcalfe, Jesse - Dodson, James - Saran, Shriya - Amritraj, Ashok - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Kher, Anupam - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Foster, Sara - Miller, Larry - LC Gift Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2009
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    Armistead Maupin's tales of the city. Part 3
    Tales of the city
    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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    TR in San Francisco, 1903
    Theodore Roosevelt in San Francisco, 1903 | President Roosevelt in San Francisco, 1903
    The following is a scene-by-scene description of the film: The camera was positioned on the southeast corner of O'Farrell Street and Van Ness Avenue, and pans from north to west to south, and then back to west. [Frame: 0100] The view is north on Van Ness Avenue toward the approaching band and cavalry. Students of Whittier School are in the foreground. [0604] The band...
    • Contributor: Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1903
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    Armistead Maupin's Tales of the city
    Tales of the city
    In this chronicle of San Francisco in the 1970s, the carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane where landlady Anna Madrigal welcomes tenants by taping homegrown joints to their doors and presides over their lives with an almost maternal affection.
    • Contributor: Law, Lindsay - Moffat, Donald - Garrick, Barbara - Dooley, Paul - D'amico, Marcus - Propaganda Films (Firm) - Working Title Films - Foch, Nina - Poul, Alan - Channel Four (Great Britain) ... Law, Lindsay - Moffat, Donald - Garrick, Barbara - Dooley, Paul - D'amico, Marcus - Propaganda Films (Firm) - Working Title Films - Foch, Nina - Poul, Alan - Channel Four (Great Britain) - Linney, Laura - Gibson, Thomas - Campbell, William - Webb, Chloe - Reid, Alastair - ACORN Media (Firm) - Williams, Cynda - Lloyd, Walt - Maupin, Armistead - Black, Karen - Kramer, Richard - Dukakis, Olympia - Gross, Paul - Keane, John (John E.) - Steiger, Rod
    • Date: 2002
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    [The Trail of '98--excerpts] Gold fever sweeps San Francisco and the nation and people head for Alaska. Samuel Foote, known as The Worm, forsakes his home; Lars Petersen, a Michigan lumberman, leaves his wife; Salvation Jim leaves the Nevada desert; and the Bulkeys, with a poor relation, Berna, and her grandfather, move their restaurant to Alaska. Evil men, like Jack Locasto, enforce a cutthroat life. The Bulkeys return...
    • Contributor: Young, Waldemar - Brown, Clarence - Marshall, Tully - Dane, Karl - Seitz, John - Glazer, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Floyer) - Forbes, Ralph - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Del Rio, Dolores - Afi/Jones (John) Collection (Library of Congress) - Gibbons, Cedric - Hively, George - Carey, Harry
    • Date: 1929
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    The Maltese falcon 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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    Monk. Season eight
    Monk
    Back for one last obsessively compulsive good time in the final season of the hit detective series. From the very first moment detective Adrian Monk appeared on the scene, audiences have been hooked on this intelligent and irreverent sleuth who uses his quirky phobias and neuroses to solve crimes in a way other detectives just can't. Join him now as he reunites with former...
    • Contributor: Gray-Stanford, Jason - Touchstone Television - Mandeville Films - Shalhoub, Tony - Howard, Traylor - Universal Cable Productions - Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm) - Levine, Ted - Breckman, Andy
    • Date: 2012
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    William H. Taft burns mortgage of Exposition, 1915. On September 3, 1915 as part of the ceremonies for the "out of debt night" at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, William Howard Taft burns the mortgage representing the expo's last debt. The program is held at night in the Court of the Universe on expo grounds and entails the public transfer of the check for the mortgage by Charles C. Moore,...
    • Contributor: Apollo Pictures - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1915
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    City confidential. San Francisco : betrayal by the bay
    San Francisco :
    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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    The streets of San Francisco. Season 5, volume 2 "In the city perched between the Pacific and the Bay, opportunistic criminals will target new victims and plot new crimes as surely as the fog rolls in through the Golden Gate. But what they've forgotten is that they're up against one of TV's most formidable detectives, Lt. Mike Stone. In volume two of the final season of this popular series, Stone and his new...
    • Contributor: Hatch, Richard - CBS Dvd (Firm) - Hume, Edward - Qm Productions - Malden, Karl - Paramount Home Media Distribution - Weston, Carolyn
    • Date: 2012
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    Willie Brown oral history, National Visionary Leadership Project
    Willie Brown interview conducted by Camille O. Cosby | NVLP Interview of Willie Brown
    The interview includes Willie Brown's memories of growing up in Mineola, Texas, and moving to California where he attended San Francisco State University for his undergraduate and law degree. He recalls joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, starting his law practice and his election to the California State Assembly. He also discusses his participation in the anti-war movement and his...
    • Contributor: Brown, Willie L. (Willie Lewis) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - National Visionary Leadership Project - Cosby, Camille O. (Camille Olivia)
    • Date: 2009
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    Monk. Season seven
    Monk
    Monk has more trouble than ever after Dr. Kroger unexpectedly dies. He decides to buy a house. Unfortunately, some creepy people want to get their greedy hands on whatever is hidden in that house, even if they have to destroy the house to do it. He has to deal with a murdered homeless man; miraculous fountains; lottery murders; a stolen bike at a biotech...
    • Contributor: Gray-Stanford, Jason - Touchstone Television - Mandeville Films - Shalhoub, Tony - Howard, Traylor - Universal Media Studios - Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm) - Levine, Ted - Breckman, Andy
    • Date: 2012
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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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    Eli Stone. The complete first season When San Francisco lawyer Eli Stone awakens to an unending George Michael soundtrack that only he can hear, gets dive-bombed by a WWI biplane on a busy San Francisco street and faces a fire-breathing dragon outside his office window, there are two possible explanations: delusions caused by a potentially fatal brain aneurysm or the chance that something greater is at work. He might just...
    • Contributor: Devine, Loretta - Letscher, Matt - Berlanti, Greg - Abc Studios - Guggenheim, Marc - Miller, Jonny Lee - Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Jaeger, Sam - Henstridge, Natasha - Garber, Victor - Saito, James
    • Date: 2008
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    Amos C. Brown oral history interview conducted by David P. Cl... Reverend Dr. Amos Brown discusses his childhood in Jackson, Mississippi and meeting Medgar Evers, who quickly became his mentor. Brown was a leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as a teenager, leading the Jackson chapter and then the whole state Youth Council and traveling with Mr. Evers across the country to attend a national conference. He was asked...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Brown, Amos C. (Amos Cleophilus) - Cline, David P.
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    The sea lions' home "The famous Seal Rocks at Golden Gate Park are here shown. Sea lions in their wild state are lying on the rocks and swimming and diving in the water. 50 ft."--Edison films catalog. "Pacific Coast Life Saving Service series: These subjects are illustrative of the work performed by the Life Saving Corps of the United States Government, and show the methods in vogue at...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
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    Live nude girls unite! Follows Julia Query, a peepshow stripper, on her journey to help organize the only strippers union in the United States.
    • Contributor: Montoya, John - First Run/Icarus Films - Funari, Vicky - Query, Julia
    • Date: 2000
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    Monk. Season one
    Monk
    He's ingenious, he's phobic, he's obsessive-compulsive. Monk's hilarious, offbeat antics have made him unfit for duty, but he's back as a police consultant to help out on their most baffling cases.
    • Contributor: Gray-Stanford, Jason - Touchstone Television - Schram, Bitty - Mandeville Films - Universal Television (Firm) - Shalhoub, Tony - Kamel, Stanley - Usa Cable Entertainment (Firm) - Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm) - Levine, Ted - Breckman, Andy
    • Date: 2010
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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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    McMillan & wife. Complete series
    McMillan and wife
    Revisit TV's favorite husband and wife detective duo as they take on crooks, murderers, and the windy streets of San Francisco.
    • Contributor: Saint James, Susan - Hudson, Rock
    • Date: 2012
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    Native Daughters "Taken at San Francisco, Cal., at the Golden Jubilee. In the foreground is shown an immense concourse of people, including ladies and children, while the background is formed by very high buildings, from the windows of which numerous flags are waving. The film opens showing the native daughters mounted on horses, passing through the immense throngs of on-lookers. They are dressed in white costumes,...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1898
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    Theodore Roosevelt in the great war [1] Film traces TR's concern before and during the United States' participation in WWI. Quotations and footage depict the beginning of the war in Europe and the entry of the United States; views of President Woodrow Wilson signing the declaration of war. TR visits Gen. Leonard Wood at the Plattsburg camp; soldiers visit Sagamore Hill. Urging active involvement in the war effort and supporting the...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Manning, Mae - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Gentry, Caroline - Roosevelt Memorial Association. Film Library
    • Date: 1930
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    Screen telegram. No. 1 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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    Scenes in San Francisco. [No. 1]
    Scenes of San Francisco | Title in Biograph bulletins 1896-1908: San Francisco
    Views and pans among the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire. A scene-by-scene description of the film: [Frame: 0100] The camera, positioned at the southwest corner of Mission and 5th streets, makes a hurried and jerky pan from the east side of 5th Street eastward to the south side of Mission Street. At the start of the pan, the ruined Lincoln...
    • Contributor: Gove, Otis M. (Otis Meader) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1906
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    The streets of San Francisco. Season 1, volume 1 "The acclaimed police drama follows the cases of detective Lt. Mike Stone, a 23-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department, and his young partner, Inspector Steve Keller. The smooth handsome Keller is the perfect foil for the gruff, trenchcoat-wearing Stone. Yet what they have in common is they both have no patience for criminals!"--Container.
    • Contributor: Warner Bros. Television - Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm) - CBS Dvd (Firm) - Douglas, Michael - Hume, Edward - Qm Productions - Malden, Karl - Weston, Carolyn
    • Date: 2007
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    My Morning Jacket : Okonokos live concert film
    Okonokos live concert film | Okonokos
    Louisville-based indie pop outfit My Morning Jacket offers over two hours of live performance footage with this concert film captured during a two-night stand in San Francisco.
    • Contributor: Issler, Ari - Red Distribution (Firm) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - James, Jim - My Morning Jacket (Musical Group) - Erickson, Sam - Ato Records - Smith, Wyatt
    • Date: 2006
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    Nash Bridges : the complete collection
    Nash Bridges
    "The life and cases of inspector Nash Bridges of the Special Investigations Unit and his quirky partner inspector Joe Dominguez as they keep tabs on crime in the scenic bay area in Bridge's electric yellow 1971 Plymouth Barracuda"--Container.
    • Contributor: Johnson, Don - Marin, Cheech - Vei (Firm) - Cuse, Carlton
    • Date: 2014
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    S.S. "Coptic" sailing away
    Steamship "Coptic" sailing away
    From F.Z. Maguire catalogue: Shows the vessel after she has been fully turned and on her way across the Pacific. The boat shows large and clear with smoke coming from the stack. In the foreground is a constantly changing crowd of people composed of men, women and children. Action is added by some late comers who rush to the dock to wave their last...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
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    Eli Stone. The complete second season San Francisco attorney Eli Stone (Jonny Lee Miller) continues to deal with his prophetic visions and the disruptive effect they have on both his professional and his personal life in this second season of the offbeat series. Though he is determined to use his extra-sensory power for good, his well-intentioned--and frequently eccentric--actions are often misinterpreted by those around him.
    • Contributor: Devine, Loretta - Letscher, Matt - Berlanti, Greg - Abc Studios - Guggenheim, Marc - Miller, Jonny Lee - Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Jaeger, Sam - Henstridge, Natasha - Garber, Victor - Saito, James
    • Date: 2009
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    The President's carriage
    Variant title from Internet movie database: Pres. Roosevelt's carriage & escort | Title from the Biograph picture catalog: President Roosevelt's carriage
    This film shows President Roosevelt in San Francisco, passing in the arrival parade on Market Street on Tuesday, May 12, 1903. The camera view is from the north side of Market Street, just east of Grant Avenue. After leaving the Southern Pacific train station at Third and Townsend streets, the parade proceeded up Third Street and wound through downtown San Francisco before continuing up...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Miles, Herbert J.
    • Date: 1903
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    Launch of Japanese man-of-war "Chitosa"
    Launch of Japanese man-of-war "Chitose" | Variant title from Edison motion pictures, 1890-1900: Launching of Japanese man-of-war "Chitose" | Variant title from MAVIS: Launch of the Japanese man-of-war "Chitosa"
    Shows the launching of the Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser Chitose at the Union Iron Works shipyard, San Francisco, on Saturday, January 22, 1898. The camera view is east, across a small inlet of Central Basin, to slipway no. 1. Four additional slipways lay beyond to the west. The camera viewpoint is today called pier 68, part of Southwest Marine's facilities. The launch took place...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1898
  • Film, Video
    The streets of San Francisco. Season 4, volume 2 Twenty-year veteran Detective Lt. Mike Stone is partnered with young, college educated Inspector Steve Keller. They return to take on The Barbary Coast's toughest crimes and most hardened criminals. This season wraps up with an array of guest appearances by some of film and television's biggest stars.
    • Contributor: CBS Dvd (Firm) - Douglas, Michael - Hume, Edward - Qm Productions - Malden, Karl - Paramount Home Media Distribution - Weston, Carolyn
    • Date: 2012
  • Film, Video
    Feeding sea gulls "A fine view of San Francisco Bay, from an Oakland ferryboat. Tug towing a scow passes by. Sea gulls sail through the air and dive into the seething wake of the boat. 40 feet"--Edison films catalog, no. 94. "Southern Pacific Company series: The Southern Pacific Company ("Sunset Route") offers special inducements to winter travelers, by reason of its southern route, thereby avoiding the extreme...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1898
  • Film, Video
    Exploded gas tanks, U.S. Mint, Emporium and Spreckels Bld'g
    Exploded gas tanks, U.S. Mint, Emporium and Spreckels Building
    The camera, placed on the east side of 4th Street near Natoma Street, one and two-thirds blocks south of Market Street, pans a full 240 degrees, from southwest to southeast. The pan begins in the southwest, viewing two 550,000 cubic foot, 45' diameter frames of gas tanks of the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company at 5th and Folsom streets. The dome of the...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1906
  • Film, Video
    After launching "Taken near the Union Works, San Francisco, Cal., immediately after the launching of the Japanese Man-of-war "Chitose." The scene opens with the pleasure yacht "Unadilla" passing in the immediate foreground, her decks loaded with passengers. The boat slowly passes, until the stern is directly to the audience. The water in the wake of the yacht is churned by her screw propeller into a milky...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1898
  • Film, Video
    Armistead Maupin's More tales of the city
    More tales of the city
    Brought to life is San Francisco in the 1970's. The quirky lovelorn tenants of 28 Barbary Lane are following their fortunes and follies under the watchful eye of their maternal landlady. Intersecting lives, gleeful coincidences and innocent raunch are all part of the fun.
    • Contributor: Working Title Television - Campbell, William - Showtime Networks - Productions La Fête - Channel Four (Great Britain) - Tierney, Kevin - Garrick, Barbara - Dukakis, Olympia - Ferguson, Colin - Ladouceur, Serge ... Working Title Television - Campbell, William - Showtime Networks - Productions La Fête - Channel Four (Great Britain) - Tierney, Kevin - Garrick, Barbara - Dukakis, Olympia - Ferguson, Colin - Ladouceur, Serge - Siemaszko, Nina - Hubley, Whip - Propaganda Films (Firm) - Linney, Laura - Gang, Pierre - Burroughs, Jackie - Wright, Nicholas - Maupin, Armistead - A-Pix Entertainment, Inc
    • Date: 1999
  • Film, Video
    Scenes in San Francisco. [No. 2]
    Scenes of San Francisco | Title in Biograph bulletins 1896-1908: San Francisco
    Panoramas filmed in the ruins of downtown San Francisco and outlying refugee camps following the 1906 earthquake and fire. A scene-by-scene description of the film: [Frame: 0102] Begins with a long, pan of downtown ruins viewed from Natoma Street between 4th and 3rd streets. The pan is from left to right (west to northeast). Buildings of interest: The old San Francisco Mint, with classic...
    • Contributor: Gove, Otis M. (Otis Meader) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1906
  • Film, Video
    Monk. Season six
    Monk
    A quirky obsessive-compulsive detective with unconventional investigative methods solves some of San Francisco's most puzzling and unusual cases.
    • Contributor: Gray-Stanford, Jason - Touchstone Television - Mandeville Films - Shalhoub, Tony - Howard, Traylor - Kamel, Stanley - Universal Media Studios - NBC Universal Television Studio - Levine, Ted - Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm) - Breckman, Andy
    • Date: 2012
  • Film, Video
    I remember mama Portrays the struggles of a Norwegian immigrant family at the turn of the century in San Francisco.
    • Contributor: RKO Radio Pictures - Stevens, George - Dorn, Philip - Bodeen, Dewitt - Parsons, Harriet - Warner Home Video (Firm) - Dunne, Irene - Van Druten, John - Homolka, Oscar - Webb, Roy - Bel Geddes, Barbara - Forbes, Kathryn
    • Date: 2004
  • Film, Video
    Arrest in Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal This film shows the arrest and conveyance of a Chinese man in Chinatown, watched by a crowd of onlookers. The precise date of this film and the arrest charge are uncertain. It is possible that the arrest was connected with the smuggling of illegal immigrants from China. By mutual agreement between China and the United States, a small quota of merchants and students was...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1897
  • Film, Video
    The princess of Nebraska An 18-year-old Chinese woman thinks twice about aborting her baby when she travels from Nebraska to the streets of San Francisco to confront her lover's male friend.
    • Contributor: Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm) - Danforth, Brian - Entertainment Farm (Firm) - Young, Donald - Chee, Pamelyn - LI, Ling - Kito, Yukie - Center for Asian American Media - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - LI, Yiyun - Binaisa, Patrice - Wang, Wayne - Ray, Michael (Michael K.)
    • Date: 2009
  • Film, Video
    Checkmate. The complete series Filmed on location in San Francisco, the series revolves around private investigators and their quest to prevent crimes before they happen.
    • Contributor: George, Anthony - Cotten, Joseph - Williams, John - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - McClure, Doug - Ambler, Eric - Baxter, Anne - Cabot, Sebastian
    • Date: 2010
  • Film, Video
    American justice. The San Francisco dog mauling
    The San Francisco dog mauling
    A look at the sensational case of Diane Whipple, who was mauled to death by her neighbors' dog. When the judge threw out the 2nd-degree murder conviction of one of the dogs' owners, questions were raised about how fair American justice can be when a case receives intense media coverage.
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2003
  • Film, Video
    The streets of San Francisco. Season 2, volume 2 At the center of this hard-hitting television drama is Lt. Mike Stone, assigned to the homicide detail of the San Francisco Police Dept., and his young, energetic partner, Inspector Steve Keller. In this volume, Stone and Keller confront a hired assassin, a ruthless bank robber, and a trio of escaped convicts.
    • Contributor: Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm) - CBS Dvd (Firm) - Douglas, Michael - Hume, Edward - Qm Productions - Malden, Karl - Weston, Carolyn
    • Date: 2008
  • Film, Video
    The Doris Day show. Season 5 Doris continues working as a reporter with editor, Cy Bennett, and secretary, Jackie Parker, for the "Today's World" magazine. Doris finds her love life heating up with boyfriend, Dr. Peter Lawrence and political candidate, Jonathan Rusk. Meanwhile, home life is never dull!
    • Contributor: CBS Television Network - Feldman, Edward H. (Edward Henry) - Joseph, Jackie - Lawford, Peter - Mpi Home Video (Firm) - Dehner, John - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Day, Doris - O'Neal, Patrick - Arwin Productions, Inc - De Wolfe, Billy
    • Date: 2007
  • Film, Video
    Nash Bridges. The first season
    Nash Bridges
    Nash Bridges is a charming, street-smart inspector for San Francisco's elite Special Investigations Unit. Nash often goes undercover to track down the city's most vile criminals, from drug dealers and smugglers to the Russian mob. Nash's loyal partner, Joe Dominguez is a retired cop who's as obsessed with solving crimes as he is with getting rich quick, a weakness that always seems to get...
    • Contributor: Marin, Cheech - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - CBS Television Network - Rysher Entertainment - Johnson, Don - Perry, Jeff
    • Date: 2008
  • Film, Video
    Investigative reports. San Francisco vice
    Investigative reports: San Francisco vice | San Francisco vice
    Looks at the San Francisco Police Department's Vice Squad and their never ending battle against prostitution and illegal gambling.
    • Contributor: Kurtis Productions - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Arts and Entertainment Network - Harris, Bob - Kurtis, Bill
    • Date: 1998
  • Film, Video
    Monk. Season five
    Monk
    A quirky obsessive-compulsive detective with unconventional investigative methods solves some of San Francisco's most puzzling and unusual cases.
    • Contributor: Gray-Stanford, Jason - Touchstone Television - Mandeville Films - Shalhoub, Tony - Howard, Traylor - Kamel, Stanley - Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm) - NBC Universal Television Studio - Levine, Ted - Breckman, Andy
    • Date: 2012
  • Film, Video
    Troops embarking at San Francisco Shows troops of the First Regiment, California Volunteers, boarding the Pacific Mail steamer City of Peking to serve in the Philippine theater of the Spanish-American War. The film was shot at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company dock between 10:50am and 1:50pm on Friday, May 13, 1898. The dock was located at First Street between Brannan and Townsend streets. The camera is probably facing north.....
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1898
  • Article
    San Francisco earthquake and fire, April 18, 1906 Shows the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, and the devastation resulting from the subsequent three-day fire. The earthquake struck at 5:12 a.m. San Francisco, with thousands of unreinforced brick buildings, and closely-spaced wooden Victorian dwellings, was poorly prepared for a major fire. The scenes in the film are preceded by interior titles, many of which are sensationalized. One scene...
    • Date: 1906
  • Film, Video
    Army pack train bringing supplies
    Variant title from the New York clipper, May 19, 1906: Army of pack train bringing supplies
    The first segment shows a series of loaded mule trains, guided by mules and horses. Many soldiers ride two-to-a-horse (or mule), possibly to facilitate quick unloading of supplies. Note the "Rough Rider"-style hats worn by many of the men. The dusty location is unclear; if the tower in the right distance is St. Boniface Church, the view could be west on Golden Gate Avenue...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1906
  • Film, Video
    Union Iron Works "Here was built the peerless battleship "Oregon." The scene is taken at lunch hour, and shows a great throng of employees leaving the shop. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog, no. 94, March 1900, p. 21. "Southern Pacific Company series: The Southern Pacific Company ("Sunset Route") offers special inducements to winter travelers, by reason of its southern route, thereby avoiding the extreme cold of the winter...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1898
  • Film, Video
    Monk. Season two
    Monk
    Television's favorite defective detective returns to DVD to solve a new batch of baffling mysteries with his trademark wit, wisdom ... and hand wipes.
    • Contributor: Gray-Stanford, Jason - Touchstone Television - Schram, Bitty - Mandeville Films - Universal Television (Firm) - Shalhoub, Tony - Kamel, Stanley - Usa Cable Entertainment (Firm) - Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm) - Levine, Ted - Breckman, Andy
    • Date: 2010
  • personal narrative
    Wallace Arthur Stearns Collection Petty Officer Third Class, Navy, World War, 1939-1945 - Virginia; Moose Island, Maine; Connecticut; Rhode Island; San Francisco.
  • Film, Video
    Rise of the planet of the apes
    Caesar, rise of the apes
    "The Escapist director Rupert Wyatt takes the helm for this Planet of the Apes prequel centering on genetically engineered chimp Caesar (Andy Serkis), who was created in a San Francisco lab by an ambitious scientist (James Franco), and who uses his powerful intellect to lead an ape uprising against all of humankind"--Allmovie.com, viewed August 29, 2017.
    • Contributor: Chernin Entertainment - Dune Entertainment - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Chernin, Peter - Ingenious Media - Wyatt, Rupert - Serkis, Andy - Jaffa, Rick - Silver, Amanda - Franco, James - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation - Clark, Dylan
    • Date: 2011
  • personal narrative
    Robert Lawrence Stipsak Collection Sergeant, Army Air Forces/Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - Biloxi, Mississippi; Illinois; Utah; San Francisco.
  • Collection
    Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films o... 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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  • Film, Video
    Rated X The story of the San Francisco porn pioneers, the Mitchell Brothers.
    • Contributor: McCumber, David - Estevez, Emilio - Showtime Networks - Sheen, Charlie - O'Quinn, Terry
    • Date: 2000-01-01
  • Film, Video
    The Doris Day show. Season 4 Doris gets a new boss, Cy Bennett, for the "Today's World" magazine, and a new co-worker, Jackie Parker. Doris has a new boyfriend, Dr. Peter Lawrence.
    • Contributor: Feldman, Edward H. (Edward Henry) - Joseph, Jackie - Lawford, Peter - Mpi Home Video (Firm) - Dehner, John - Day, Doris - Ballard, Kaye - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Arwin Productions, Inc - De Wolfe, Billy
    • Date: 2006
  • Film, Video
    The streets of San Francisco. Season 3, volume 1 Twenty year veteran Detective Lt. Mike Stone is partnered with young, college educated Inspector Steve Keller who has a lot to learn about being a police detective on the Streets of San Francisco.
    • Contributor: CBS Dvd (Firm) - Douglas, Michael - Hume, Edward - Qm Productions - Malden, Karl - Paramount Home Media Distribution - Weston, Carolyn
    • Date: 2012
  • personal narrative
    K. Lavern Wood Collection Electrician's Mate Second Class, Navy, World War, 1939-1945 - Seattle, Washington; San Francisco; Pacific Theater.
  • Film, Video
    Amazing: the rebuilding of the MacArthur Maze
    Rebuilding of the MacArthur Maze
    Documents the rebuilding of a key connector in MacArthur Maze near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
    • Contributor: Professional Engineers in California Government - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - David L. Brown Productions - Brown, David L. - Baigel, Steven
    • Date: 2007
  • Film, Video
    Kuffs PA568-250 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: [Claimant, DCR, and REG unknown] PUB 12Dec91; PA568-250. Copyright notice on film: Dino De Laurentiis Communications ; 1991. Presenter, Dino De Laurentiis ; associate producer, Lisa Fitzgerald ; music by Harold Faltermeyer ; film editor, Stephen Semel ; director of photography, Thomas Del Ruth. Christian Slater, Tony Goldwyn, Milla Jovovich, Bruce Boxleitner. Release date per copyright data sheet; some...
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Gideon, Raynold - Slater, Christian - Evans, Bruce A. - Goldwyn, Tony
    • Date: 1991
  • Film, Video
    The towering inferno The opening night gala at the world's tallest building, located in San Francisco, turns deadly for guests who become trapped on the 129th floor when a fire breaks out on the lower levels due to faulty wiring.
    • Contributor: Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ) - Guillermin, John - Robinson, Frank M. - Dunaway, Faye - Simpson, O. J. - Blakely, Susan - Chamberlain, Richard - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Scortia, Thomas N. - Williams, John ... Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ) - Guillermin, John - Robinson, Frank M. - Dunaway, Faye - Simpson, O. J. - Blakely, Susan - Chamberlain, Richard - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Scortia, Thomas N. - Williams, John - Wagner, Robert - Stern, Richard Martin - Holden, William - Jones, Jennifer - Silliphant, Stirling - McQueen, Steve - Vaughn, Robert - Newman, Paul - Allen, Irwin - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation - Astaire, Fred
    • Date: 2009
  • Film, Video
    Monk. Season four
    Monk
    Monk is back for his fourth season as the obsessive-compulsive police consultant who helps out on the most baffling cases.
    • Contributor: Gray-Stanford, Jason - Touchstone Television - Mandeville Films - Shalhoub, Tony - Howard, Traylor - Kamel, Stanley - Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm) - NBC Universal Television Studio - Levine, Ted - Breckman, Andy
    • Date: 2012
  • Film, Video
    Sutro Baths
    Title in Edison films catalog: Sutro Baths, no. 2
    "Another view in which the figures show larger. A springboard furnishes the bathers with much amusement; also a toboggan slide. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog. "A large indoor swimming pool is shown, as well as the walkways that separate the varying depths of the water, and a sign identifying the locale on the wall farthest from the camera position. In the immediate foreground, camera right...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
  • Film, Video
    And then came Lola A talented but distracted photographer, Lola, who is on the verge of success in both love and work, could lose it all if she doesn't make it to a crucial meeting on time. But as usual Lola is late. With her job and girlfriend Casey on the line, she has three chances to make it right. Lola has to race against the clock to...
    • Contributor: Bennett, Jill - Graham, Jessica - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Siler, Megan - Sumner, Ashleigh - Wolfe Video (Firm) - Seidler, Ellen - Debuono, Cathy - Martinez, Angelyna
    • Date: 2010
  • Film, Video
    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
  • Film, Video
    Lurline Baths "A large indoor swimming pool can be seen. The camera was directed toward a slide from which people can be seen entering the pool in rapid succession"--Early motion pictures. "At San Francisco. The main feature is the toboggan slide which the bathers use, some sitting, others lying down, head first or feet first. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog.
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
  • Film, Video
    The streets of San Francisco. Season 5, volume 1 "Danger collides with drama-- and Lt. Mike Stone gets a new partner-- in this explosive first volume of the final season of The streets of San Francisco. When Stone's partner Steve Keller departs for new opportunities, Inspector Dan Robbins steps in as an able replacement to help Stone pursue and punish the city's criminal element"--Container.
    • Contributor: Hatch, Richard - CBS Dvd (Firm) - Hume, Edward - Qm Productions - Malden, Karl - Paramount Home Media Distribution - Weston, Carolyn
    • Date: 2012
  • Film, Video
    Birth of a community Jews & the Gold Rush
    Jews & the Gold Rush | Jews and the Gold Rush
    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
  • Film, Video
    Bird's-eye view of San Francisco, Cal., from a balloon As early as 1874, passenger balloon flights were being made over San Francisco. San Franciscans - and Americans in general - were fascinated with the thrills and dangers of flight. Although balloon technology had not advanced greatly by the turn of the century, attempts at man-powered flight were sustaining public interest. The era of powered flight arrived in 1903 with the Wright brothers' flight...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1902
  • Film, Video
    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
  • Film, Video
    Armistead Maupin's tales of the city. Part 2
    Tales of the city
    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
  • Film, Video
    Sutro Baths, no. 1 "One of the sights of San Francisco. A 50-foot slide is used by the bathers, who toboggan down its slippery surface in all positions. The bathers are clad in black trunks, making fine contrast with the flesh tints. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog. "In the background are three tiers of spectators watching the bathers. There are many people bathing and diving into the swimming pool....
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
  • Film, Video
    The internship Trying to reboot their obsolete careers, old-school salesmen Billy and Nick talk their way into an internship program at the state-of-the-art Google campus, vying for a handful of spots among tech-savvy college students who are half their age and twice as smart. The competition is fiercely funny as Billy and Nick break all the rules in a hilarious quest to land their dream jobs.
    • Contributor: Wilson, Owen - Regency Enterprises - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Stern, Jared - Levy, Shawn - Vaughn, Vince - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation - Wild West Picture Show Productions - 21 Laps Entertainment (Firm) - Byrne, Rose
    • Date: 2013
  • Film, Video
    President reviewing school children
    Biograph production log title: President Roosevelt reviewing school children
    From the side of a broad avenue, a crowd of people await the arrival of President Theodore Roosevelt. The marching military that precedes his carriage can be seen at a distance of a quarter of a mile away. Four other camera positions along the march include the escort, the dignitaries, and at the conclusion, Roosevelt in his carriage.
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Miles, Herbert J.
    • Date: 1903
  • Article
    A trip down Market Street before the fire "Produced as part of the popular Hale's Tours of the World film series, the film begins at the location of the Miles Brothers film studio, 1139 Market Street, between 8th and 9th Streets; it was filmed 14 April 1906, four days before the devastating earthquake and fire of 18 April 1906, which virtually destroyed the entire downtown area. The negative was taken by train...
    • Contributor: Miles Brothers
    • Date: 1906
  • Film, Video
    S.S. "Coptic" in the harbor
    Steamship "Coptic" in the harbor
    From F.Z. Maguire catalogue: Shows the vessel away from the dock and slowly turning. The vessel is seen to good advantage, the four masts, smokestack and hull being faithfully reproduced. Clouds of smoke pour out of the funnel, and volumes of steam out of the exhaust pipe. In the foreground is a dense crowd, among which are numerous Chinamen. Clear and sharp with figures...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1897
  • Article
    The Maltese falcon 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 - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Bogart, Humphrey - Cook, Elisha - Wallis, Hal B. - Patrick, Lee - George, Gladys - Bond, Ward - Haas, Robert ... Blanke, Henry - Greenstreet, Sydney - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Bogart, Humphrey - Cook, Elisha - Wallis, Hal B. - Patrick, Lee - 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: 1941
  • Film, Video
    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