Lost Landscapes of San Francisco with Rick Prelinger

San Francisco shines throughout this wide-ranging, unbounded panorama made from 128 years of San Francisco moving images with a soundtrack made fresh by the audience as the film plays. Celebrating the city as a center of creativity, style, resistance and freedom, LOST LANDSCAPES is drawn from some 300 newly-unearthed (and a few familiar) archival films plus “guest appearances” from San Francisco filmmakers.

This 37th in a series of “urban history events” recreates the textures and activities of everyday life, labor and play, replaying known and unknown historical moments, daylighting lost and found infrastructures, revealing the scars of settlement and pointing to more hopeful futures. Highlights include transportation in the air, water and on the land; images of the City’s rich and resilient communities; unfamiliar footage of familiar places; countercultures and counterdemonstrators; and unpredictable moments on the streets.

As always, the audience makes the soundtrack. Please come prepared to raise your voices; identify places, people and events; and ask questions of others in the audience.