13166_8191_pan_pacific_expo
The clip is on the world’s fair in San Francisco, 1915, also known as the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition. The opening shot is of teh Ferry Building with the date 1915 on the side. Footage of auto racing at the fair as the VO begins. The next shot is of a camel run. Following is one of children running towards a car in a POV shot from the car, then a MS of Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand playing with a sarcophagus of some type. Cut to a MS of John Philip Sousa leading a band, followed by two shots of stunts: one of men capsizing a boat then retuning it to surface while still on it, then one of a plane. After, a WS of children dancing in the pavilion, then some shots of a parade. A woman on a horse smiles in a WS, then there is a LS of cable cars in San Francisco. Last is a WS of fireworks going off against a night sky as the camera pans down top a picture of the Palace of Fine Arts as the clip ends.