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Title: MERCHANT SHIP JOURNEY TO SAN FRANCISCO

Reference number: 10341

Date: 1938c

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.46 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a journey on a merchant ship from the Clyde to San Francisco, passing through the Panama Canal.

Collection at refs. 10335, 10336, 10337, 10338, 10339, 10340 and 10341

Shotlist: gvs Firth of Clyde, various ships, paddle steamer passing, RMS Queen Mary off Greenock. Pan across shipyard, [possibly Lobnitz at Renfrew]. GVs passenger ship on Clyde and shots of crew on merchant ship deck. Liner passing under bridge. Cattle being unloaded from ship. Pan across Imperial Oil depot [possibly Dartmouth, Nova Scotia]. GVs crew on deck of ship at sea, bow frozen over. GV river and city, ferry crossing. Crew on deck. Docks, liner being pulled by tug. GVs on deck, crew washing, relaxing. GVs rocky harbour, crew on deck. Crew on deck at sea-lock of Panama Canal. GVs passing ships [some shots obscured by marks on lens]. GVs coastline from ship. GVs wide harbour area, San Francisco, Oakland Bay Bridge in distance. Various surrounding vessels, including 4-masted sailing ship at anchor. Crew on deck, headland and seafront with palm trees, lighthouse. Crew play-fighting, relaxing on deck. Shots from deck of ship in San Francisco harbour looking towards Oakland Bay Bridge. Crew member and young girl walking along deck. GVs from ship, returning through Panama Canal sea lock. Crew on deck.