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

[Michael Biel]

On 3/22/2011 8:24 PM, Donna Halper wrote:
> At 07:08 PM 3/22/2011, you wrote:
>
>>>   look at all the traffic
>>> violations! Jaywalkers, vehicles cutting in and out, near
>>> collisions, no signaling.
> Things were so bad that within the next two years, there were public
> service announcements shown before the main feature, in which the
> title cards warned people not to walk out in front of the street cars
> and automobile.

Supposedly the Brooklyn Dodgers were the Brooklyn Streetcar Dodgers.  
Nowadays in Brooklyn we don't have to dodge streetcars but rogue 
bicyclists riding the wrong way with no lights, reflectors, or common sense.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

>   Kino Films put out a 2-volume DVD of early cinema,
> including The Great Train Robbery, and it has several examples of
> these efforts to train the public to look before crossing the
> increasingly busy streets.