Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes of San Francisco is back for one final performance this year! Now you can catch this perennially sold-out show and your ticket donation will benefit the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library which hosts the Prelinger Collection. Please give generously to support the effort.
Friday, December 19, 2014
6 pm Reception
7:30 pm Film
300 Funston Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94118
This year’s LOST LANDSCAPES brings together familiar and unseen archival film clips showing San Francisco as it was and is no more. Blanketing the 20th-century city from the Bay to Ocean Beach and the Presidio to Bayview, this screening includes San Franciscans at work and play; early hippies in the Haight; a highly privileged walk on the unfinished Golden Gate Bridge;
newly-discovered images of Playland and the waterfront; families living and playing in their neighborhoods; detail-rich streetscapes of the late 1960s; peace rallies in Golden Gate Park; 1930s color images of a busy Market Street; a selected reprise of greatest hits from years 1-8; and much, much more.
As usual, the viewers make the soundtrack — audience members are asked to identify places and events, ask questions, share their thoughts, and create an unruly interactive symphony of speculation about the city we’ve lost and the city we’d like to live in.
The film begins at 7:30 pm and is preceded by an informal
reception that begins at 6:00 pm.
Interactive projection, this looks great. A time travel. Must be a great time.
Thanks for evening to look back at time which was truly fleeting. Looking at past sure makes me appreciate the present even more. Great job achieving Mr. Prelinger, and company.