Wow: A Nice Video Showing What It Was Like to Fly Into San Francisco on United Airlines in 1941 – In Color! « San Francisco Citizen

Wow: A Nice Video Showing What It Was Like to Fly Into San Francisco on United Airlines in 1941 – In Color!

A little jumpy as they didn’t have image stabilization on little cameras back then:

Some parts of the City I recognize easily and other parts I don’t…

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One Response to “Wow: A Nice Video Showing What It Was Like to Fly Into San Francisco on United Airlines in 1941 – In Color!”

Rick Prelinger says:

September 10, 2012 at 12:12 pm

There’s a much-better quality version of this film online for free from the Prelinger Collection at the Internet Archive. See here:

http://archive.org/details/0629_HM_Summers_Collection_San_Francisco_California_1941_16_00_58_00

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