Bibframe Work

The film begins from a single-camera position high above the Exposition grounds. The camera begins to pan from left to right, following the horizon. The picture includes all of the spires and buildings of the fair. Then the camera is moved to the Exposition midway. Includes shots of the exposition buildings in Balboa Park, a bridge that cost a quarter of a million dollars [Cabrillo Bridge], the California Building, the Horticultural Building, the Panama Canal exhibit, the Isthmus (location of boardwalk and rolling chairs), the Panama Film company exhibit (where Fatty Arbuckle walks by the camer in street clothes), the lagoon with trained fish and the Plaza de Panama, where little children feed pigeons.

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A permanent bridge costing a quarter of a million dollars.

Panoramic view.

California Building, a permanent structure costing approximately three-quarters of a million. [Includes view of California Tower].

Horticultural Building containing specimens of vegetation from all parts of the world. [Actually shows another view of the California Building].

Panama Canal exhibit costing approximately two hundred thousand dollars. [Actually shows the Horticultural Building].

A miniature reproduction of The Locks of Gatuna of the Panama Canal.

On the Isthmus.

Panama Film Company's exhibit. One of the most interesting features of the fair, showing complete manufacturing of moving pictures. [Fatty Arbuckle across frame left to right, staring at the camera, then turns and runs out of frame, back to the left].

The Laguna filled with different specimens of trained fish who answer the dinner gong three times a day.

Plaza de Panama.

Pals. [shows toddlers playing with pigeons on the Plaza]

Capture

capture: Date: 1915-01-03/1915-01-03 Place: Geography. Anthropology. Recreation

Filmed in Balboa Park, San Diego, California on January 3-4, 1915.

Duration

PT7M

Authorized Access Point

A glimpse of the San Diego Exposition

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