San Francisco Scenes - Now Comes The Dream

About 1920 or so, a sweeping and nearly fearless vista of the city, once more growing, rebuilt, and prosperous despite the major earthquakes that had struck the city. It seems to be a much chopped up educational film, it almost looks as if two identical reels of it fell apart in some high school's audio visual department, and a student carefully tacked what was left together in hopes of saving it.

The result is a little odd, but aren't most of these nearly century old survivors? A few duplicated scenes, no real cohesion, but a lot of steady looks at the city. Dock workers are hard at work unloading pineapples, bananas, silk and moving it along to the Southern Pacific rails. The cable cars working with the ferries, turning and heading uphill. Chinese girls work diligently at the switchboards, a drunk staggers through China Town, a shopkeep calmly watches over his wares.

There are some aerial shots, and then the better parts of town are shown. A row of homes which had been burned out hulks in the Jewel City movie are now lovely and rebuilt. The Golden Gate park is open, a band plays on the bandstand, people enjoy the outdoors.

The music is an upbeat but thoughtful composition, running over its themes with a steady heartbeat, fluid as the dream that passes through your REM. It's here looped thrice, it simply returns to the beginning to start over once more.

This is all done on the Yamaha DGX, Tedd says "I was lazy". Which means eventually he'll have it re-orchestrated for four instruments. In any case, it seems a fitting companion for the scenes of a city hopefully rising to prosperity after adversity.

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[purplecat11]

When did S.F Get colorized?(j/K) Great footage of one of my Favorite Cities:-)

[Goldenthrush]

@purplecat11 I think they turned the color on in the '50s. :D

[crazyfrisco]

This was totally amazed to looked back in the 20's to see how much they rebuilt since the major earthquake of 1906. Much love San Francisco. By the way I loved this song, what is the name of it?

[Goldenthrush]

The music is "Now Comes The Dream", by Tedd Smith. I'll be making him orchestrate it properly soon :D, glad you liked it!

[tuttimelon26]

The best city to grow up in!! <3 SF Forever

[Palal12]

First two scenes, the film is a mirror image of what it should be.

[imsixftsix]

Thank you for posting this! It is amazing how quickly the city was rebuilt after the earthquake...