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ALL YOU HISTORY BUFFS
A cable car ride in San Francisco : 104 YEAR OLD FILM CLIP 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!
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!
Look at the hats the ladies were wearing and the long dresses. Some of the cars had the steering wheels on the right side. I wonder when they standardized on the left? Sure were still a lot of horse drawn vehicles in use. Mass transit looked like the way to get around. Looks like everybody had the right of way.
What chaos! People on horseback, wagons pulled by horses, bicyclists, pedestrians, vehicles, cable cars, and no traffic rules/regulations! It amazes me that most people were so nonchalant about the traffic.
Perhaps the oldest “home movie” that you will ever see!
Oh this is so interesting indeed! I cannot imagine letting a daughter go anywhere alone these days, but when I was in high school my parents would allow me to take a bus thirty miles north to San Francisco and I would shop on market street. The stores were huge--no malls. That was in the 1960s when I would dress up to do this and would ride the street cars sometimes.
But this picture from 60 years before that is so very interesting to me. No accidents! Ruby, I am going to put this on Facebook. Thanks.
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This is something. Very interesting. My daughter and I enjoyed watching it.
ReplyDeleteThis was very interesting
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A cable car ride in San Francisco :
104 YEAR OLD FILM CLIP
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!
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!
Look at the hats the ladies were wearing and the long dresses. Some of the cars had the steering wheels on the right side. I wonder when they standardized on the left? Sure were still a lot of horse drawn vehicles in use. Mass transit looked like the way to get around. Looks like everybody had the right of way.
What chaos! People on horseback, wagons pulled by horses, bicyclists, pedestrians, vehicles, cable cars, and no traffic rules/regulations! It amazes me that most people were so nonchalant about the traffic.
Perhaps the oldest “home movie” that you will ever see!
Oh this is so interesting indeed! I cannot imagine letting a daughter go anywhere alone these days, but when I was in high school my parents would allow me to take a bus thirty miles north to San Francisco and I would shop on market street. The stores were huge--no malls. That was in the 1960s when I would dress up to do this and would ride the street cars sometimes.
ReplyDeleteBut this picture from 60 years before that is so very interesting to me. No accidents! Ruby, I am going to put this on Facebook. Thanks.
Thank you, Ruby! The children and I loved watching this and the other related "movies."
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