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A guide to the Captain Ottmar Friz motion picture film of C.A. Thayer (built 1895; schooner, 3m) and Eppleton Hall (built
1914; paddlewheel tugboat), 1958 and 1970
P83-046 (SAFR 384)
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Title: Captain Ottmar Friz motion picture film of C.A. Thayer (built 1895; schooner, 3m) and Eppleton Hall (built 1914; paddlewheel
tugboat)
Date: 1958 and 1970
Identifier/Call Number: P83-046 (SAFR 384)
Creator:
Friz, Ottmar, 1896-
Physical Description:
2 items.
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Physical Location: San Francisco Maritime NHP, Historic Documents Department
Language(s):
In English.
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[Item description], [Location within collection organization identified by Collection Number/Series Number/File Unit Number/Item
Number], P83-046 (SAFR 384), Captain Ottmar Friz motion picture film of C.A. Thayer (built 1895; schooner, 3m) and Eppleton
Hall (built 1914; paddlewheel tugboat), San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
SAFR-00001
The collection was donated to Golden Gate National Recreation Area's National Maritime Museum at San Francisco (GOGA-00789)
in 1983 and transferred to San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in 1989 (SAFR-00001.)
Historical or Biographical Note
Captain Ottmar Fritz began his career in 1911 as a deck boy on the square-rigger Obotrita, bound for Cape Horn. He was 15
years old. His career spanned 55 years and ended as Military Sea Transportation Service port captain at Fort Mason, San Francisco.
His autobiography, "Liverpool buttons & homeward bound stitches ; portrait of a master mariner", was published in 1993. Friz
died in 2001 at the age of 105.
The Captain Ottmar Friz motion picture film of C.A. Thayer (built 1895; schooner, 3m) and Eppleton Hall (built 1914; paddlewheel
tugboat) (P83-046, SAFR 00384) consists of 2 reels of 16 mm silent, color motion picture film of C.A. Thayer in San Francisco
in 1958 and one of Eppleton Hall (built 1914; paddlewheel tugboat) includes footage of Eppleton Hall arriving through the
Golden Gate Bridge and pierside with spectators in 1970.
All films were shot by Captain Ottmar Friz.
The C.A. Thayer footage running time is 4 minutes and 2 seconds. Digital video available on the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/csfmm_00009
and digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
The Eppleton Hall footage running time is 2 minutes and 51 seconds. Digital video available on the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/csfmm_000010
and digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Two films arranged in chronological order.