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''Notes on the Port of St. Francis'' is a 1951 short impressionistic documentary film on San Francisco, directed by Frank Stauffacher, and with narration written by Robert Louis Stevenson (1882) and read by Vincent Price. The film opens with "An Epitaph" by Walter de la Mare. The film was made in
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, is 22 minutes long, and has been preserved by the
Pacific Film Archive The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA, formerly abbreviated as BAM/PFA) are a combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and archive associated with the University of California, Berkeley. Lawrence Rinder was Director from ...
at University of California, Berkeley. Stauffacher was assisted by
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, Allon Schoener, Herb Gleitz, and Gene Tepper. The film was co-produced by Stauffacher, the SF Maritime Museum, and the California Historical Society. On December 18, 2013, the Library of Congress announced that this film had been selected for the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".


See also

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Vincent Price filmography This is the filmography of Vincent Price (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993), which includes appearances in theatre and television. Price made his theatre debut in the Gate Theatre's production of ''Chicago'' (1935), followed by work on Broadway ...
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National Film Preservation Foundation The National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) is an independent, nonprofit organization created by the U.S. Congress to help save America's film heritage. Growing from a national planning effort led by the Library of Congress, the NFPF began op ...


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*''Notes on the Port of St. Francis'' essa

by Scott MacDonald on the National Film Registry website *
SF Museum of Modern Art entryPacific Film Archive notes (October 31, 2012)''Notes on the Port of St. Francis''
at Bay Area Television Archive, San Francisco State University 1951 films American short documentary films United States National Film Registry films Documentary films about San Francisco 1951 short films 1950s short documentary films 1951 documentary films American black-and-white films 1950s English-language films 1950s American films English-language short documentary films {{short-documentary-film-stub