Explore 100 Years Of Film History In Your Neighborhood

San Francisco CA

14 October, 2021

6:43 PM

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By Will Jarrett, Mission Local October 13, 2021 In discussions pitting San Francisco against its brash cousin to the south, Los Angeles, it is the latter that tends to win in terms of movie history. Grease, Thelma and Louise, La La Land – all these and a thousand more were created in L.A. But it turns out that San Francisco has an impressive movie pedigree of its own. The San Francisco Film Commission maintains a database of locations used in movies throughout the city and it includes thousands of entries dating back over 100 years. The oldest movie on the Film Commission's list is Charlie Chaplin's A Jitney Elopement, released in 1915. Scenes were filmed in Golden Gate Park and in the Mission, at around 20th and Folsom streets. The list goes right up to the as-yet unreleased The Matrix Resurrections, which had several scenes filmed in Chinatown. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.