A compelation of footage recorded by the Seattle Engineering Department. Footage includes historical stills of the Pioneer Building, the Mutual Life Building, and the Maynard Building in Pioneer Square; demolition of the and the Olympic Hotel/Cascade Hotel; brief clips of the Denny Regrade construction; the Fox Theater; the Seattle skyline (appears to be shot from West Seattle); an old prop plane flying over a field; a more modern airplane taking off; people on a Foss Barge for the Engineering Department employee picnic; women smiling and laughing; children playing in a park pool (appears to be in either Volunteer Park or Green Lake Park; the Coliseum; city limits sign; police man writing ticket on Aurora; footage from front seat of car;
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Citation:
Courtesy of the Seattle Municipal Archives, #559, Series 2613-09.
Film Format(s):
16mm mm, 24 fps (Box 10) Original
Video Format(s):
Carrier: 1537 Digital Betacam (Box 11)
Digital Format(s):
Matroska (10 GiB) MPEG-4 (279 MiB)
Permissions:
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