A glimpse of the San Diego exposition /

The film begins from a single-camera position high above the Exposition grounds. The camera begins to pan from left to right, following the horizon. The picture includes all of the spires and buildings of the fair. Then the camera is moved to the Exposition midway. Includes shots of the exposition buildings in Balboa Park, a bridge that cost a quarter of a million dollars [Cabrillo Bridge], the California Building, the Horticultural Building, the Panama Canal exhibit, the Isthmus (location of boardwalk and rolling chairs), the Panama Film company exhibit (where Fatty Arbuckle walks by the camer in street clothes), the lagoon with trained fish and the Plaza de Panama, where little children feed pigeons.
MP293 U.S Copyright Office
Copyright: Keystone Film Company (Mack Sennett, author); 18Feb15; MP293.
Appearing: Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle.
Duration: ca. 7 minutes.
Originally released together as a split reel with Ye olden grafter, according to the Moving picture world, v. 23, no. 10, p. 1448.
Filmed in Balboa Park, San Diego, California on January 3-4, 1915.
Summary taken from Early motion pictures, and from Mack Sennett's fun factory, p. 310.
Paper print shelf number (LC 2893) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Both this paper print and Ye olden grafter were assigned the same number, LC 2893.
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Sources used: Niver, K., Early motion pictures, p. 121; Walker, B. Mack Sennett's fun factory, p. 310; Motion picture world, v. 23, no. 10, March 16, 1915, p. 1448, 1530.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.