Video of the Day: A tour of 1955 San Francisco

Filed under: North America, United States, Photo of the Day, Video

Today's featured video offers a rare glimpse at the city of San Francisco as it looked in 1955. Filmed by amateur filmmaker Tullio Pellegrini, the video provides a narrated tour of the city and its surroundings, complete with a gloriously vintage soundtrack. Pellegrini was also an inventor and tinkerer, and the video's quality is due to his merging of a 16mm Bell & Howell Cinemascope lens with Kodachrome film. This gem was recently discovered in the Prelinger Archives' collection of more than 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films. Watch and wait as the nostalgia hits you.

[via StreetsBlog]

Video of the Day: A tour of 1955 San Francisco originally appeared on Gadling on Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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