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| name        = Notes on the Port of St. Francis
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| caption     =
| director    = [[Frank Stauffacher]]
| producer    = Frank Stauffacher
| writer      = Robert Louis Stevenson
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| starring    = [[Vincent Price]] (narrator)
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| distributor = Film Images Inc.<ref>{{Cite news| issn = 8750-068X| volume = 15| issue = 3| pages = 21| last = Lee| first = Rohama| title = Notes on the Port of St. Francis| work = Film News| date = 1955|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_film-video-news_1955_fall_15_3/page/n19/mode/2up|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
| released    = {{Film date|1951}}
| runtime     = 22 minutes
| country     = United States
| language    = English
}}
'''''Notes on the Port of St. Francis''''' is a 1951 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]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0442820 IMDB entry]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN19723 |title=Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley notes (October 31, 2012) |access-date=December 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219080707/http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN19723 |archive-date=December 19, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Stauffacher was assisted by [[Hy Hirsh]], Allon Schoener, Herb Gleitz, and Gene Tepper. The film was co-produced by Stauffacher, the [[San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park|SF Maritime Museum]], and the [[California Historical Society]].
On December 18, 2013, the [[Library of Congress]] announced that this film had been selected for the [[National Film Registry]] for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref name="2013Add">{{cite press release|title=Library of Congress announces 2013 National Film Registry selections |newspaper=Washington Post|date=December 18, 2013|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/library-of-congress-announces-2013-national-film-registry-selections/2013/12/17/eba98bce-6737-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html?tid=hpModule_ef3e52c4-8691-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394|accessdate=December 18, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|website=Library of Congress|access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[Vincent Price filmography]]
*[[National Film Preservation Foundation]]
==References==
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==External links==
*''Notes on the Port of St. Francis'' essay [https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/notes_port.pdf] by Scott MacDonald on the [[National Film Registry]] website
*{{IMDb title|tt0442820}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131219002111/http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/events/series/1319 SF Museum of Modern Art entry]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131219080707/http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN19723 Pacific Film Archive notes (October 31, 2012)]
*[https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/208804 ''Notes on the Port of St. Francis''] at  Bay Area Television Archive, [[San Francisco State University]]
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