Burt in Army, Vallejo St, 1940s

This 1940s Ransohoff Collection home movie opens in black-and-white with soldiers—possibly Burt—marching on an army base and a pilot climbing into a plane, followed by parade ground drills. Shifting to Kodachrome, it captures a suburban or rural house with a mother and baby (Cathy or Ben), then a soldier in casual uniform posing with a woman on San Francisco’s Vallejo Street, the Palace of Fine Arts in view. Family members join, parading for the camera in a heartfelt WWII-era snapshot.