1903 · 2:29
President Roosevelt reviews the school children of San Francisco
Not in the current cut
Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Period films
The fair on film
46 reels, most shot between 1903 and 1916: 4 hours 56 minutes of public-domain film from the Internet Archive, the Library of Congress, the Prelinger collection and Wikimedia Commons. Twenty-six of them are cut into 288 Days. Each card links to the reel where it can be watched whole.
1906 · Miles Brothers · 11:26
A Trip Down Market Street
Prelinger Archives' 2018 4K scan of the Miles Brothers film.
In the film: Part Two (13:37)
Prelinger Archives / Wikimedia Commons (2018 4K transfer) · Public domain
1906
A cable car ride on Market Street, 1905 and 1906, before and after the earthquake
The ride down Market Street before the earthquake, then the ruins and the fire after it.
In the film: Part Two (16:26)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (0890_Cable_Car_Ride_on_Market_Street_1905-1906_Before_and_After_Eart_08_00_54_00) · Public domain
1906 · Edison Manufacturing Company
Edison newsreels: cleaning up downtown after the fire
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (EdisonNe1906) · Public domain
1906 · 2:58
Exploded gas tanks, U.S. Mint, Emporium and Spreckels Building
In the film: Part Two (16:26)
Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
1906 · 5:37
Riding down Market Street after the fire
In the film: Part Two (16:26)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive · Public domain (Prelinger Archives)
1906
San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 1
displaced people and damaged buildings; the print jumps
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (SanFranc1906) · Public domain
1906
San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 2: east down Market Street
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (SanFranc1906_2) · Public domain
1906 · 7:44
San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 3 · Western Addition and Market Street
In the film: Part Two (16:26)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive · Public domain
1906
San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 4 (newsreel)
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (SanFranc1906_4) · Public domain
1906
San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 5 (newsreel)
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (SanFranc1906_5) · Public domain
1906
San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 6: riding down Market Street
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (SanFranc1906_6) · Public domain
1906 · 1:40
San Francisco earthquake aftermath: down Market Street
In the film: Part Two (16:26)
Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
1906 · 12:37
San Francisco earthquake and fire, April 18, 1906
Not in the current cut
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
1906
San Francisco earthquake footage (Prelinger home movies)
In the film: Part Two (16:26)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (tmp_50168) · Public domain
1912 · 2:21
Parade celebrating the Chinese Republic, San Francisco
In the film: Part Seven (52:11)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (ParadeCe1912) · Public domain
1912 · 10:46
Seeing America's Greatest Chinatown, Part I (Captain Lewis)
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive · Public domain (Prelinger Archives)
1912
Seeing America's Greatest Chinatown, Part II (Captain Lewis)
restaurant, gambling, poultry store, joss house
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (Seeing_Americas_Greatest_Chinatown_San_Francisco_Part_II) · Public domain
1914 · 0:25
Barbary Coast, 1914, Russian sailors on Pacific Avenue (Lost Landscapes No. 1)
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Shaping San Francisco / Internet Archive · Public domain (Prelinger Archives)
1914 · 2:15
Opium destruction, San Francisco
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (OpiumDes1914) · Public domain
1914 · Ray Duhem · 12:38
Panama by Air (reel 4)
In the film: Part Seven (53:30)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (Panamaby1914) · Public domain
1915 · 24:37
A Jitney Elopement · Chaplin, Essanay (Golden Gate Park scenes)
shot in San Francisco while Chaplin was at Essanay's Niles studio; the park chase
Not in the current cut
Internet Archive · Public domain (1915 Essanay)
1915 · 2:10
Art Smith and the closing of the Exposition
A later Telenews compilation; only the 1915 photography is used.
In the film: Part Six (47:39), Part Nine (1:01:57)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive · Public domain (the 1915 photography; see note)
1915 · 6:20
Exposition parade; money moved into the Subtreasury (Gould collection)
In the film: Cold open (0:11)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive · Public domain (Prelinger Archives)
1915 · 2:52
Fillmore Street parade, floats, American Theatre (Gould can 5364.2)
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive · Public domain (Prelinger Archives)
1915 · Exposition Players Corporation · 45:02
Film footage of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
In the film: Part Eleven (1:13:32), Part Seventeen (1:46:46)
Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, via Internet Archive (cubanc_00001) · Public domain
1915 · 13:49
In the Park · Chaplin, Essanay
Not in the current cut
Internet Archive · Public domain (1915 Essanay)
1915 · 1:04
Lincoln Highway Dedication, San Francisco
In the film: Part Thirteen (1:27:59)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (LincolnH1915) · Public domain
1915 · Keystone Film Company (Roscoe Arbuckle) · 10:35
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
In the film: Part One (8:46), Part Two (17:40), Part Ten (1:03:55), Part Thirteen (1:28:58)
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
1915 · 10:04
Mayor Rolph in the Market Street opening-day parade (Gould can 5345)
In the film: Cold open (0:11), Part Eight (55:41), Part Ten (1:03:44)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive · Public domain (Prelinger Archives)
1915 · 4:07
Mayor Rolph, 1915 (Gould can 5376)
Rolph throws out the first ball; opening-day parade
In the film: Part Ten (1:08:23)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive · Public domain (Prelinger Archives)
1915 · 17:44
Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco, Cal. (newsreel)
aerials, Court of the Universe, Court of Palms, Fine Arts, Sousa and his band
In the film: Cold open (1:46), Part One (8:46), Part Five (38:35), Part Eleven (1:14:27), Part Fifteen (1:38:11)
Pacific Film Archive / California Revealed via Internet Archive · Public domain (1915 newsreel)
1915 · 12:48
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (Gould can 5390.1)
In the film: Cold open (0:11), Part One (8:21), Part Six (43:02), Part Eight (55:27), Part Nine (1:00:07), Part Twelve (1:17:52)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive · Public domain (Prelinger Archives)
1915 · 9:34
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (Prelinger 0203)
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive · Public domain (Prelinger Archives)
1915 · 11:09
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (Prelinger 0204)
In the film: Part Nineteen (1:59:50)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive · Public domain (Prelinger Archives)
1915 · 7:59
Panama-Pacific International Exposition Opening Parade
In the film: Cold open (0:11)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive · Public domain (Prelinger Archives)
1915 · 8:26
Panama-Pacific International Exposition color footage
In the film: Part Six (48:41), Part Seventeen (1:53:06)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (PanamaPa1915_3) · Public domain
1915 · 8:13
Panama-Pacific International Exposition: dignitaries and ceremonies
In the film: Cold open (1:46), Part Eight (56:57), Part Twelve (1:18:35)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (PanamaPa1915) · Public domain
1915 · 5:04
Panama-Pacific International Exposition: images of the fair
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (PanamaPa1915_2) · Public domain
1915 · Exposition Players Corporation · 9:03
The Story of Jewel City
In the film: Part Two (17:01)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (StoryofJ1915) · Public domain
1915 · 0:25
The evolution of the bicycle, a parade at the Exposition (Gould can 5202.3)
Twenty-five seconds of 1915 parade photography.
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive · Public domain (published 1915)
1915 · 2:06
Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill (1916), with Roosevelt speaking in the Court of the Universe, July 21, 1915
Roosevelt speaks at a draped rostrum in the Court of the Universe, July 21, 1915; the rest of the reel is Sagamore Hill, May 27, 1916.
In the film: Part Twelve (1:19:33)
Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
1915 · 6:25
Women's parade at the Exposition (Gould can 5365.3)
marching units of women, fancy marching, head of organization on horse
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive · Public domain (Prelinger Archives)
1916 · 3:39
Chamber of Commerce Preparedness Day film
the July 22, 1916 bombing on Market Street, the year after the fair
Not in the current cut
Prelinger Archives via Shaping San Francisco / Internet Archive · Public domain (Prelinger Archives)
1932 · Central Films
San Francisco by the Golden Gate
the Golden Gate before the bridge; Telegraph Hill, the wharf, the park
In the film: Part One (7:04), Part Nineteen (1:59:50)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (SanFranc1932) · Public domain
c. 1940 (1915 footage) · Frank W. Vail
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, revisited (c. 1940)
1915 footage cut into a reminiscence made about 1940; it begins with the ground-breaking of 1911. Its c. 1940 narration is not used in 288 Days.
In the film: Part One (8:21), Part Six (43:02), Part Nine (1:02:12), Part Twelve (1:17:52), Part Fourteen (1:33:30)
Prelinger Archives via Internet Archive (PanamaPa1940) · Public domain