# Home Movie: Charles Edward Smith Collection: 000470

Well-photographed San Francisco scenes including extensive footage of Chinatown with neon signs at night, Chinese New Year, a performance of the Foo Hsing Chinese Opera, and the Republican National Convention in July 1964. Note that there is a section in the middle of the reel with magnetic sound that has not been transferred. This transfer is entirely silent. Can marked: "San Francisco 9-63 -->". Notes in can state: "San Francisco - Reel 7 / 1. Civic Center - Oct. 1963 / a. City Hall & Plaza / b. Market Street at Van Ness Ave. / 2. View from Home: 12 W. Clay Park - Oct 1963 / \[Golden Gate Straits\] / 3. Chinatown - Feb. 1964 / 1. Chinatown by Day / b. Chinese New Year Parade / c. Chinatown by Night / d. Foo Hsing Chinese Opera / 4. Republican Convention, July 1964 / Union Square Vicinity."

- Kind: Home movie
- By: Charles Edward Smith
- Genres: History, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/203352_Smith_Collection_000470)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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