San Francisco Cable Car

This video received 2nd Place, Documentary for SCAN NATOA Awards 2023 and also was nominated in the California Emmy Awards 2023

Cable cars were invented by Andrew Smith Hallidie here in San Francisco in 1873. By 1947, the lower operational costs of buses prompted Mayor Roger Lapham to declare, "the city should get rid of all cable car lines as soon as possible." In response, Friedel Klussmann founded the Citizens' Committee to Save the Cable Cars. The committee began a public campaign showing that the cable cars’ value to San Francisco was far greater than their operational cost. In this video, you will hear from cable car gripman and grip woman their passion and love working their job including Willa Johnson, the second female to become a gripwoman.
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CREDITS
Director/Producer - Anson Ho
Executive Producer - Jack Chin
Editors - Jeanett Egenlauf, Anson Ho
Motion Graphics - Chris Manners
Camera - Michael Baltazar, Jennifer Low, Jeanett Egenlauf, Paul Morrill, Anson Ho
Drone - Jeanett Egenlauf
Additional Archive Footage/Photos - SFMTA Photo Archive, San Francisco Library, Archive.org, San Francisco Chronicle
Special Thanks - Val Lupiz, Cedric Armstrong-Harris, Arne Hansen, Willa Johnson, Fred Butler, Matthew Lee