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A signalman at a control lever high above the city

Name: A signalman at a control lever high above the city
Uploaded: 2026-08-31T02:04:39.381Z
Duration: 34 s
Description: High above the shore, a worker in a hard hat with a telephone earpiece strapped to his head grips a lever on a dark machine, a wire rope running diagonally past him; far below and behind him the houses of San Francisco cover the hills down to the water. The telephone linked the men at the towers, the anchorages and the spinning wheels.

High above the shore, a worker in a hard hat with a telephone earpiece strapped to his head grips a lever on a dark machine, a wire rope running diagonally past him; far below and behind him the houses of San Francisco cover the hills down to the water. The telephone linked the men at the towers, the anchorages and the spinning wheels.

Period: c. 1935–1936
Credit: US National ArchivesPublic Domain (NARA) · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH

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Clip name: HFE003691
Length: 0' 34"
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames per Second: 25 fps
Chroma Subsampling: yuv422p10le
Resolution: 1920 × 1080
Format: MOV
File Size: 773,090,100 bytes

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