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>>/99/ Under a Killing Moon takes place in San Francisco. San Francisco means "Saint Francis". It's named after St. Francis of Assisi. https://www.etymonline.com/word/San%20Francisco > named in Spanish for St. Francis of Assisi > the name first recorded in reference to this region 1590s, reinforced by long association of the area with the Franciscan order. The Matrix: Resurrections was shot in San Francisco. https://screenrant.com/matrix-4-resurrections-location-setting-san-francisco-why/ San Francisco is the birthplace of the American film industry. https://www.marinatimes.com/hollywoods-san-francisco-roots-the-enduring-love-of-sf-film > Motion pictures were invented down on the Stanford Palo Alto farm (1878). > The first public motion picture exhibition took place in San Francisco (1880). > The first complete movie studio on the Pacific Coast was not in Southern California but San Francisco (1906). Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas founded American Zoetrope in San Francisco. https://www.zoetrope.com/american-zoetrope/ > American Zoetrope continues to build on its rich film history and legendary standards of quality from its headquarters, the historic Sentinel Building in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. Zoetropes were pre-film animation devices. The word "zoetrope" means "wheel of life". https://www.etymonline.com/word/zoetrope > literally "wheel of life," from Greek zoe "life" (from PIE root *gwei- "to live") + tropē "a turn" (from PIE root *trep- "to turn").