LOST LANDSCAPES OF SAN FRANCISCO — Streets, People and Play: The Drama of Daily Life
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2025 4:07 am
This year’s LOST LANDSCAPES OF SAN FRANCISCO (the 19th!) casts an archival gaze on the lives of San Franciscans and Bay residents. Drawn from over 400 newly scanned archival films plus a few old favorites, this year’s film revels in the textures and activities of everyday life, labor and celebration, replaying known and unknown historical moments, daylighting lost and found infrastructures, revealing the scars of settlement and pointing to more hopeful futures. Highlights include intimate views of the Mission District, recently discovered BART films, coverage of Western Addition redevelopment and displacement, and much more. Almost all of the footage has not been shown before.
As always, the audience makes the soundtrack. Please photo restoration service prepared to raise your voices; identify places, people and events; and ask questions of others in the audience.
By attending, you’ll directly contribute to supporting the Internet Archive. Rick Prelinger will be presenting as per usual. Don’t miss this opportunity to be a part of truly special evening!
No one will be turned away due to lack of funds!
Buy Tickets
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Image credit: Montage of materials moving into the public domain in 2025. Duke Law Center for the Study of the Public Domain.
Celebrate the public domain with the Internet Archive in the following ways:
Register for our Public Domain Day celebrations on January 22 – both virtual and in-person.
Submit a short film to our Public Domain Film Remix contest.
Explore the works that have entered the public domain in 2025, below.
On January 1, 2025, we celebrate published works from 1929 and published sound recordings from 1924 entering the public domain! The passage of these works into the public domain celebrates our shared cultural heritage. The ability to breathe new life into long forgotten works, remix the most popular and enduring works of the time, and to better circulate the oddities we find in thrift stores, attics, and on random pockets of the internet are now freely available for us all.
While not at the same blockbuster level as 2024 with Steamboat Willie’s passage into the public domain, works from 1929 still inhabit strong cultural significance today. The works of 1929 continue to capture the Lost Generation’s voice, the rise of sound film, and the emerging modern moment of the 1920s.
As always, the audience makes the soundtrack. Please photo restoration service prepared to raise your voices; identify places, people and events; and ask questions of others in the audience.
By attending, you’ll directly contribute to supporting the Internet Archive. Rick Prelinger will be presenting as per usual. Don’t miss this opportunity to be a part of truly special evening!
No one will be turned away due to lack of funds!
Buy Tickets
Posted in Event, News |
Image credit: Montage of materials moving into the public domain in 2025. Duke Law Center for the Study of the Public Domain.
Celebrate the public domain with the Internet Archive in the following ways:
Register for our Public Domain Day celebrations on January 22 – both virtual and in-person.
Submit a short film to our Public Domain Film Remix contest.
Explore the works that have entered the public domain in 2025, below.
On January 1, 2025, we celebrate published works from 1929 and published sound recordings from 1924 entering the public domain! The passage of these works into the public domain celebrates our shared cultural heritage. The ability to breathe new life into long forgotten works, remix the most popular and enduring works of the time, and to better circulate the oddities we find in thrift stores, attics, and on random pockets of the internet are now freely available for us all.
While not at the same blockbuster level as 2024 with Steamboat Willie’s passage into the public domain, works from 1929 still inhabit strong cultural significance today. The works of 1929 continue to capture the Lost Generation’s voice, the rise of sound film, and the emerging modern moment of the 1920s.