Vaillancourt Fountain Dedication Ceremony (KRON)
About This Item
KRON-TV news footage from April 21, 1971, featuring scenes from Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco, where the controversial Vaillancourt Fountain is being formally dedicated. Includes views of crowds watching musical entertainment, listening to speeches and witnessing the fountain's designer Québécois sculptor and painter Armand Vaillancourt painting grafitti on his own work ("Quebec Libre"). Kids are shown running around the fountain and one of them falls in. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks. This 16mm color reversal film print was scanned in 4K (4096 x 2970) using a Lasergraphics ScanStation film scanner, in February 2026.
- Date
- 4/21/1971
- Format
- 16mm color reversal print, with co-magnetic soundtrack
- Digital Format
- Moving Image
- Genre
- Television news programs
- Copyright Holder
- Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved
- Duration
- 4:31
- Identifier
- KRON 2675-9
- Views
- 130
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