Wednesday, June 11 at 7:00 p.m.
Merced Arts & Culture Salon / Summer Reading Program
San
Francisco has appeared in hundreds of movies and television series, some
famous, others obscure, from Eric von Stroheim's 1924 Greed to Dirty Harry to
Zodiac. Jim Van Buskirk, co-author of Celluloid San Francisco (and former SFPL
librarian), uses film stills and clips to demonstrate the Bay Area's rich
cinematic history. Among the many familiar (or not-so-familiar scenes) are the
Alta Plaza Park steps being chipped in What's Up, Doc?, the futuristic skyline
in Towering Inferno and Bicentennial Man and the geographically inconsistent
chase sequence in Bullitt.
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