User Reviews

This short film should be seen in perspective. It is a video clip, but the most remarkable thing about it is that it was made twenty years before MTV and other music TV stations started to make the genre popular among many young music lovers and a mode of life for a few of them.

There is however nothing too innovative or ground-breaking in this short film. Most of it is built of video and photo shots of San Francisco at the top of the hippie era, run at a speed that risks to give motion sickness to the viewers, but still passes the message and matches well the rhythm of Pink Floy's music. When this material seems to have run out or maybe was ran too fast we get some images of a nudity populated ceremony that fits less well in the overall context.

It's good to see Pink Floyd and San Francisco at that time in one of the first rock music clips in history. As video art this is not as great.

It did indeed flick around a lot, but I would remind the true Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd fans that you are obliged to rent such movies if you can find them...

It took a long, long, time to find this, but it's always worth the effort to enjoy a floydian-based soundtrack...

Not the best movie by far, but not as bad as Transylvania 6-5000.

Along with "The Committee", San Francisco is one of the holy grails of early Pink Floyd soundtrack contributions. While "The Committee" is a very interesting and thoughtful art film, San Francisco is little more than 15 minutes of random shots of the city of the same name, with a soundtrack overlaid. The intro is a near exact copy of the one in "Tonight Lets All Make Love in London". It isn't that it's BAD. There has to be SOME substance for a film to be bad. It's simply not much of anything at all. Hardcore Pink Floyd fans will enjoy it for its otherwise unreleased soundtrack featuring Syd Barrett before he left the band. If you can find it (unlikely) you're not losing much, as it is only 15 minutes or so. Get it and try to think of the film as secondary to the great sounds of Pink Floyd.

An odd find,for sure. This is a 16 minute short film made in 1968 that features Hundreds of fast clips of "A Day in the Life of San Francisco". Some people claim this film was shot by Syd Barrett,who was the original founder of Pink Floyd before he receeded into oblivion around early to mid 70's,depending on his altering state. This seems unlikely,however Pink Floyd scored it's soundtrack in October of 1966 before their first official album was even released and Syd was still very much part of the band,in fact,they had just renamed themselves "Pink Floyd",they were once the called the "Architectural Abdabs" along with many other names.

Highly recommended to any Floyd fan because the soundtrack is one of the earliest Floyd recordings to survive. It is a 15 minute version of "Interstellar Overdrive" an early Floyd classic that was to remain in their set lists until around 1971. I believe it is a one-take demo recording,therefore the sound quality is a bit rough but if you can find a good copy,it still sounds better than most of the bootleg releases of the song only.

Like I said,tons of fast clips. Makes the editing in "Natural born Killers" look like Hitchcock's "Rope" so it might induce a bit of nausea!

Actually more like a promo film ("music video") than a movie, this is experimental filmmaking using pixillation at its best. It's composed of single-frame shots with a movie camera, taken all around San Francisco in 1968 (or '67). The music is Pink Floyd's instrumental jam "Interstellar Overdrive" played at a very fast tempo, or a sped-up recording of this composition, which matches the fast pace of images. Although it's tempting to believe that images of Syd Barrett and The Floyd themselves can be found on this film, I believe it's more likely to be a local San Francisco band.

Recommended for the Pink Floyd completist to add to your video collection. It's hard to find since it wasn't released ligitimately, so you'll have to find a copy from another collector.

Goes well together with the Floyd's silent home movies packaged as "Syd Barrett's First Trip".

Those gullible individuals who believe that "Syd shot this movie" need to get a grip. The only Syd involvement here is on the discordant soundtrack.

"San Francisco" was shown a few years ago as part of a London's National Film Theatre evening of 1960s experimental films, and the film-maker was there in person. He seemed rather surprised when during the Q&A someone asked if there was any meaning to the film. No, he replied, it was part of a series we did pretty much for fun, and we knew the Floyd, and they gave us a soundtrack for this one. And, er, that's it. Maybe the audience was just disappointed to have just sat through an experience akin to standing in front of a stroboscope for 15 minutes, for here is a quarter-hour of dizzying stop-frame images of mid-1960s San Fran, overlaid with colour effects, and all set to an early version of the Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive". Probably great for back-projection at the UFO Club, as might have been intended at the time, but otherwise file under "you really had to be there".