City welcomes the San Francisco Giants (1957)

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Film Date
4/14 and 15 1958
Film Reference Number
KRON 15-1
Description
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.
Format
16mm b&w print, with optical soundtrack