''San Francisco'' was an impressionistic documentary film directed by Anthony Stern. The film, cut to a version of "

Interstellar Overdrive "Interstellar Overdrive" is an instrumental composition written and performed by Pink Floyd. The song was written in 1966 and is on their 1967 debut album, '' The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'', clocking in at almost ten minutes in length. The so ...

" as performed by Pink Floyd in 1966, pioneered the use of 16 mm single frame

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in the late 1960s and went on to win awards for

at the Oberhausen,

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and

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. The film was produced by the BFI (

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) and by Iris Sawyer, Jeremy Mitchell, and

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# Interstellar Overdrive (San Francisco Version) - 15:45

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* * 1968 films British documentary films Documentary films about San Francisco 1968 documentary films 1960s British films {{UK-documentary-film-stub