Golden Horizons (circa 1955, sound)

Description: Sponsored film about the industry and infrastructure of Northern and Central California. Features footage filmed in many San Francisco Bay Area cities, with many brief shots of local attractions, activities and facilities supporting residents' needs.
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Subjects: 1950s, Industry, Extractive industries, Infrastructure, Housing, 19th century, Capitalism, Cities, Commerce, Construction, Transportation, Water, Agriculture
Tags: titles stenciled on packing crate; California Gold Rush; gold panning; streaming water; relief map of California; scales; gold dust; leather pouches; stagecoach gives way to railroad which give way to freeway; Golden Gate Park; San Francisco aerials; sailboats; Stanford University; beans; Arizona-California state line; California Inspection Station; cars and trucks entering California; trucking; lumber mills; 1955 Illinois license plate; man from Illinois applies for job in California factory; Delta Lines; tennis; family home in San Francisco suburb; Stow Lake; bicycles; aerial of downtown San Francisco; Scott, Foresman & Co.; Marchant Calculators, Inc.; shift bells; end of day; parking lots; plowing; fertilizing; cropdusting; airplanes; crop fields; sailboats; salt mountain; man riding on rocket-powered platform; Santa Clara University aerials; San Francisco State College aerials; Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley; freighters; cargo ships; horses; ranch hands; Half Dome; Yosemite; cattle; diatomaceous earth; limestone quarries; petroleum; oil wells; Sierra Nevada; irrigation; California Central Valley; cement plants; hydroelectric plants; electricity; water; natural resources; timber; lumber; saw mills; McCloud River railroad; Mt. Shasta; Western Pacific Railroad; freight trains; Blake Moffitt & Towne; Consolidated Freightways; passenger and freight trains; cars waiting at railroad grade crossing; sprinklers; electrical transformers; Northern California; Golden Gate Bridge; San Francisco Bay Bridge; blueprints; timber; logs; wood; Redwood trees; tree farms; paper mills; Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; San Francisco International Airport; commerce; Levi's; Lilli Ann; Del Monte; Moore Business Forms; C and H Sugar; Pabco Products; Spreckels Sugar; tug boats; SS Dalfonn Stavanger; SS Victoria Star London; piers; barges; lighterage in San Francisco Bay and Sacramento River Delta; shipping; dikes; cotton plants; harvesters; waterways; peppers; docks; cargos; loading ship's hold; barrels; propellers; tarmac; forklifts; air freight; Airport Drayage Co.; Pan American Airways aircraft in flight; R.P. Bowman & Co.; Shop Smith; drills; die-casting equipment; plaid shirts; San Francisco Stock Exchange; Oakland International Airport; land development; manufacturing; factories; construction of Richmond-San Rafael bridge; tossing red hot metal; closeup of metal chain links; nets; drill press; machine shop; girders; rivets; Bechtel; cable car reflections; 74 New Montgomery; Guy F. Atkinson Company; Judson Pacific-Murphy plant; Kodak Processing Laboratory; housing developments; Art Colvin Westlake Specialist; Crestmoor Park; Rollingwood; Carquinez Bridge; postwar suburban development on San Francisco Peninsula; Lost Landscapes; driving POV Golden Gate Bridge; aerial of San Francisco Airport and Oakland Airport; driving POV San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; driving POV family driving through new suburb; Central Freeway (US Highway 101), San Francisco; montage of California economic and suburban development
Film Sponsor: Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Advertising and Publicity Department
Creator: Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Credits: Camera: Jon Frederic Stanton
Story: Caryl Coleman
Stagecoach courtesy of Disneyland
Narration: Marvin Miller
Sound and Laboratory: W.A. Palmer Films Inc
Produced by: Advertising and Publicity Department PG&E
Distributor:
Contributor: Prelinger Archives
Source Collection: Gordon Elgart Collection, Prelinger Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive
Production Date:
Release Date: circa 1955
Geographical Location: USA; California; San Francisco, California; San Francisco Bay Area, California; Santa Clara County, California; Shasta County, California; Stanford, California; Berkeley, California; Yosemite National Park; San Joaquin Valley, California; Central Valley, California; Sierra Nevada Mountains, California; Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; Daly City, California; San Mateo County, California
Genre/Form: sponsored
Language: eng
Rights: no notice on film
Film Format: 16mm film
Element: release print
Color: color
Color Process: Kodachrome
Sound or Silent: sound
Film Soundtrack Type: optical, variable density
Edge Code: plus square
Frame Rate: 24 fps
Length (feet): 1034