Creatures from the New Lagoon Festival At Exploratorium

This event will take place on Saturday, May 12, 2007, 10am-2pm and is free to the public.

In addition, the Exploratorium offers the following historic films about the Panama Pacific Exposition, as well as historic San Francisco, which are included in the price of admission to the Exploratorium on May 12 at 2pm. The program is as follows:

The Palace of Fine Arts: An Island in Time in the McBean Theater

The Innocent Fair-1915 (1965, 28 min.), produced by KPIX and narrated by Walter S. Johnson, gives a visceral shape and feel to San Francisco in 1915 by documenting the cultural and political climates, as well as the technological advances, that gave rise to the Panama-Pacific Exposition.

A Trip Down Market Street-1905 (10 min., originally shot on 35 mm), by Jack Kuttner, captures San Francisco's teeming thoroughfare from the vantage of a moving cable car.

Complete with pedestrians, horses, bicycles, automobiles, and both horse-drawn and electric trolley cars, the film provides a rare glimpse into the city's early days.

Daredevil Bicycle Riders-1916 (2 min., filmmaker unknown), a short newsreel intended for movie houses, shows two riders taking a spin on top of the Palace of Fine Arts dome following the end of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. The nascent Marina district can be seen revolving in the background. -- www.exploratorium.edu