San Francisco Transportation Scenes Colorized: 1935

This circa 1935 silent film, San Francisco Transportation Scenes Colorized, originally shot in black-and-white 16mm and later colorized, vividly portrays San Francisco’s transport life. California Street buses rumble past in red-and-yellow hues, a green Railway Express truck navigates vintage cars, and at the Embarcadero, a ship departs with smoking funnels amid crowds and cargo vans loading goods near the pier. Outtakes from Pick of the Pod, it captures pre-war urban bustle—cable cars clanging, horns honking—in a kaleidoscope of added color, blending nostalgia with innovation.