Cavalcade of San Francisco (1940)
** (out of 4)
Weaker entry in James A. FitzPatrick's TravelTalks series takes a look at San Francisco and starts off by looking at the Oakland Bay Toll Bridge, which we're told took $77 million to complete. From here we get a great look at the Golden Gate Bridge and then it's off to various Old West things like seeing the Wells Fargo stagecoach, the Iron Horse train and several re-enactments. Also on hand is some footage from the World's Fair aka Treasure Island. Overall this entry isn't too bad but I just felt that we really didn't get to see San Francisco all that much and instead we were just watching local re-enactments. The stuff dealing with the Treasure Island World Fair was somewhat useless because there were two previous TravelTalks shorts that looked at it. Overall, this is certainly worth checking out if you're a fan of the series but it doesn't offer anything overly special.