Notes on the Port of St. Francis (1951)

Directed by

Frank Stauffacher

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

22 min

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short documentary takes a look at San Francisco through images and a narration written by Robert Louis Stevenson. It shows the city's port and surrounding areas in a poetic and meditative way.

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What happens

Notes on the Port of St. Francis is a 1951 American short impressionistic documentary film on San Francisco, directed by Frank Stauffacher, and with narration written by Robert Louis Stevenson (1882) and read by Vincent Price. The film opens with "An Epitaph" by Walter de la Mare. The film was made in 16mm film, is 22 minutes long, and has been preserved by the Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley. Stauffacher was assisted by Hy Hirsh, Allon Schoener, Herb Gleitz, and Gene Tepper. The film was co-produced by Stauffacher, the SF Maritime Museum, and the California Historical Society. On December 18, 2013, the Library of Congress announced that this film had been selected for the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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