[78-L] fwd: 1906 film of a cable car ride

[Thatcher Graham]

The link for the complete version is here: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oubsaFBUcTc



On 3/22/2011 6:06 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> Nobody knew from stop signs in 1906, I guess..try this on Queen Street in
> Toronto and there'd be miles of roadkill. Great stuff.
>
>>          RIDE ON THE CABLE CAR IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1906
>>
>>
>>          */105 YEAR OLD FILM CLIP/*
>>
>>          This film was lost for many years. It was the first 35mm film ever that
>>          has come to light. It was taken by camera mounted on the front of a
>>          cable car as it’s travelling down the street.
>>
>>          *You feel as if you're really there, standing at the front looking down
>>          the street. *
>>
>>          *The clock tower at the end of Market Street at the Embarcadero wharf
>>          is still there.*
>>
>>          *
>>          Great historical film!
>>          *_
>>          _*http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k*
>>
>>
>>          This film was originally thought to be from 1905 until David Kiehn with
>>          the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum figured out exactly when it was
>>          shot. New York trade papers announced the film showing. 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.
>>
>>
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