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Cool Lost 1906 Movie of San Francisco

OldDog/NewTricks

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Take 7 minutes and cruise back in time... Talk about a different world to live in!! No computers, ipods, lap tops,face book, penicillin etc.

Have a healthy New Year!!!!

Worth the download time

This film was lost for many years. It was the first 35mm film ever. It was taken by camera mounted on the front of a cable car.

The number of automobiles is staggering for 1906. Absolutely amazing! The clock tower at the end of Market Street at the Embarcadero wharf is still there. How many "street cleaning" people were employed to pick up after the horses? Talk about going green!

Great historical film!
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k

This film, originally thought to be from 1905 until David Kiehn with the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum figured out exactly when it was shot. From New York trade papers announcing the film showing to the wet streets from recent heavy rainfall & shadows indicating time of year & actual weather and conditions on historical record, even when the cars were registered (he even knows who owned them and when the plates were issued!). It was filmed only four days before the Great California Earthquake of April 18th 1906 and shipped by train to NY for processing. Amazing, but true!
 

DustDevil

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Pretty cool :) , doesn't look anything like the SF I saw for a week in July '80, while I was processing out of the Nav at Treasure Island. i wonder who the outlaw was cutting across holding onto his derby? ( @ about 50 sec. deep)
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Ok....the trolly drivers probably had road rage even way back then!!!!! Horses and buggies goin between the trolly cars....cars cuttin right in front of the one with the camera on it!!! :shock:

Must have been a special occasion.....because people are standin in the middle of the street...like they this trolly car had a camera on the front and wanted to be on film.

Haha the policeman in the middle of the street...wasn't directing traffic that's for sure...they drove all over the road..anywhich side any which direction they took a notion too. Wonder what the statistics read on vehicle pedestrian accidents in 1906? LOL

That was very interesting....and kinda skeery lol thought we were gonna see a wreck or someone get ran over.
 

DustDevil

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I had to look at it again. Man, people didn't wear shorts and flip-flops to wal-mart back then, did they ? I wonder if the rig on the tracks @ 5:21 was emmisions control. :wink:
 
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