Notes on the Port of St. Francis is a 1951 American short impressionistic documentary film on San Francisco, directed by Frank Stauffacher, and with narration written by Robert Louis Stevenson (1882) and read by Vincent Price. The film opens with "An Epitaph" by Walter de la Mare. The film was made in 16mm film, is 22 minutes long, and has been preserved by the Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley.IMDB entry Stauffacher was assisted by Hy Hirsh, Allon Schoener, Herb Gleitz, and Gene Tepper. The film was co-produced by Stauffacher, the SF Maritime Museum, and the California Historical Society.
On December 18, 2013, the Library of Congress announced that the film had been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
See also Vincent Price filmography National Film Preservation Foundation
References
External links Notes on the Port of St. Francis essay by Scott MacDonald on the National Film Registry website
SF Museum of Modern Art entry Pacific Film Archive notes (October 31, 2012) Notes on the Port of St. Francis at Bay Area Television Archive, San Francisco State University