Editing San Francisco (1936 film) (section)

==Production==
[[File:San Francisco lobby card.JPG|thumb|[[Lobby card]]]]
[[File:San Francisco lobby card 2.jpg|thumb|Lobby card with Spencer Tracy (left) and Clark Gable]]
[[File:San Francisco lobby card 5.jpg|thumb|Lobby card]]
The earthquake [[Montage (filmmaking)|montage sequence]] was created by  [[Slavko Vorkapich]],<ref name="asib">{{cite book |last=Stratton |first=James |date=2015 |title=A Star Is Born and Born Again: Variations on a Hollywood Archetype |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S0E_DwAAQBAJ |publisher=BearManor Media |page=283 |isbn=978-1593938192}}</ref><ref name="thefilm">{{cite book |last1=Corrigan |first1=Timothy |last2=White |first2=Patricia| date=2012 |title=The Film Experience: An Introduction |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oztJXky9aJ0C |publisher=Bedford/St. Martin's |page=155 |isbn=978-0312681708}}</ref><ref name="montaje">{{cite book |last=Marimón |first=Joan |date=2022 |title=Montaje cinematográfico, El. Del guion a la pantalla |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9Z4EAAAQBAJ |publisher=Edicions Universitat Barcelona |page=136 |isbn=978-8491688402 |language=spanish}}</ref> but the montage of effects was credited to Vokapich's collaborator and second unit director [[John Hoffman (filmmaker)|John Hoffman]].<ref name="griffith">{{cite book |last=Cherchi Usai |first=Paolo |date=2019 |title=The Griffith Project, Volume 10: Films Produced 1919-1946 | volume=10 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dOXxDwAAQBAJ |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |page=246 |isbn=978-1839020001}}</ref> The [[Barbary Coast, San Francisco|Barbary Coast]] barroom set was built on a special platform that rocked and shook to simulate the historic tremor (similar sets were built for the 1974 disaster film ''[[Earthquake (1974 film)|Earthquake]]'').<ref name="culhane">{{cite book |last=Culhane |first=John |date=1981 |title=Special Effects in the Movies: How They Do it | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MbklAQAAIAAJ |publisher=Ballantine Books |page=139 |isbn=0345286065}}</ref>

Famous [[silent film]] directors [[D. W. Griffith]] and [[Erich von Stroheim]] worked on the film without credit. It's been a matter of controversy which scene Griffith directed, but his contribution was mainly for publicity purposes.<ref name="griffith" /> Von Stroheim contributed to the screenplay.<ref>{{harvnb|Dugan|2011|pp=128, 145}}</ref>

There are two versions of the ending. The original release features a stylish montage of then-current (1936) scenes of a bustling San Francisco, including Market Street and the construction of the [[Golden Gate Bridge]]. When the film was re-released in 1948, it was thought these scenes were dated and the film fades out on a single long shot of the modern business district. However, the TV and 16mm versions of the film seen in the 1950s and 60s were struck from the original version which includes the montage. The current DVD and cable version features the shorter, 1948 version.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028216|title=San Francisco|website=IMDb}}</ref>

Gable and Tracy also made two other films together, ''[[Test Pilot (film)|Test Pilot]]'' and ''[[Boom Town (film)|Boom Town]]'', before Tracy eventually insisted on the same [[Billing (filmmaking)|top billing]] clause in his [[MGM]] contract that Gable had enjoyed, effectively ending one of the American cinema's most famous screen teams.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

Gable had played an extremely similar character also named "Blackie" two years earlier in the smash hit gangster epic ''[[Manhattan Melodrama]]'', with [[William Powell]] and [[Myrna Loy]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}