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Preview of a Twentieth Century Fox Studio film at Federal Theater in San Francisco.

Twentieth Century Fox Studio has a preview of their film at Federal Theater in Treasure Island during Golden Gate International Exposition. Crowd in typical late 1930s fashions stands outside the building of the theater. Sign reads ' Federal Theater'. Cameramen take photographs. Policemen stand among the crowd.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041902
Passengers traveling by a ferry to Federal Theatre in Treasure Island, San Francisco, California

A ferry carries passengers to Federal Theatre in Treasure Island for Golden Gate International Exposition. A view of the buildings from the ferry. Passengers seated in the ferry. Several passengers look at the sea.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041903
The function of motion picture cameras and projectors is explained in detail.

Working of motion pictures is explained. Close up of film projector running. A montage shows varied film events, including dancers in Hawaii, a smoking volcano, biplane aircraft flying over the pyramids in Egypt, Coronation crowning of King George VI in England, United Kindgom; the Hindenburg disaster, World War I era tanks driving over hills, Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a baseball game cheering from the stands, iron smelting, a woman talking to a grocery man, and zoom in on AC generators at Hoover dam. A family watches projection of a home movie. The home movie shows a boy playing with his dog. Devices demonstrating optical illusion include a bird in the cage illusion. Demonstration of a Mutoscope-Kinetoscope flip-card projector. Thomas Edison shown in a flip card moving image. A cartoon animator at work, showing his character move as he flips pages. Parts of a movie projector are shown in detail, including lens, shutter, and exciter lamp. A cameraman operating a 35mm motion picture camera. Film being perforated during manufacture. Production of an optical sound track is explained, showing the narrator at his microphone and sound mixer using sound board and loading audio mag recorders. Animated diagrams show the functioning of a photoelectric cell in producing a variable intensity sound track. Wide shot of Hollywood movie film set and an action stunt scene being filmed. Lead actor might be James Cagney. Hollywood premiere of movie showing flood lights, cinema theater marquee, and people buying tickets at the movie theater box office. Close-up shots of faces of men and women audience members in movie theater reacting to fight scene in movie and then applauding and smiling. Scene with many hands applauding. Demonstration of the creation of 16mm film shows size comparison between 35mm and 16mm motion picture film. Montage shows many film projectors running at the same time.

Date: 1939
Duration: 10 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041965
Tanker fleet conducts life boat rescue drills in United States.

Merchant Seamen aboard an oil tanker ship in United States. Seamen dressed in marine disaster suits. Seamen help each other while donning the suits. The tanker fleet conducts life boat rescue drills. Seamen climb into life boats. Life boat is lowered in water. Life boat carrying seamen underway. Merchant Seamen row the life boat using oars.

Date: 1939
Duration: 5 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042033
Merchant Seamen of Tanker fleet in engine room of an oil tanker ship, United States.

Merchant Seamen aboard an oil tanker ship in United States. Men of the tanker fleet in engine room. Men at controls in the engine room. Engine room operation by merchant seamen. A man takes reading from a meter. Equipment and machines in the room. A sign reads 'When bell rings, all hands on deck'. Men walk in the engine room. Men operate machines.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042034
Merchant Seamen of Tanker fleet in sleeping quarters of an oil tanker ship, United States.

Merchant Seamen aboard an oil tanker ship in United States. Men of the tanker fleet in sleeping quarters. A bunk bed in view. Two men lay on the bed. A man sleeps while another reads a book. Both of them get up and don their marine disaster suits. Both men rush out of the room. Clothes hang on hooks. Merchant Seamen use stairs.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042035