City welcomes the San Francisco Giants (1958)
About This Item
KRON-TV news footage from April 1958, featuring scenes of the newly relocated San Francisco Giants baseball team being welcomed by a tickertape parade through downtown San Francisco on April 14, 1958. Followed by views from their first game on the West Coast in Seals Stadium on April 15, 1958. We think the narration is by KRON's Tom Franklin (tbc). Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
This 16mm b&w film print was transferred in 4K (4096 x 2970) using a Lasergraphics ScanStation film scanner, in May 2023.
- Date
- 4/14 and 15/1958
- Format
- 16mm b&w print, with optical soundtrack
- Digital Format
- mp4 file
- Genre
- local newsfilm
- Copyright Holder
- Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved.
- Duration
- 2:14
- Identifier
- KRON 15-1
- Views
- 1887
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