Air - La Femme D'Argent

The first track from Airs' Moon Safari
album, accompanied by scenes from a video
shot from a streetcar traveling down Market Street in San Francisco in 1905.
Before the earthquake/fire of 1906 destroyed the area. Remarkable footage of the turn of the century lifestyles
in California.Made by cleaverb!
The video is CC no rights reserved.
You can download video from the
www.archive.org . Search for
" trip down 1905 " without quotes.
I used the big 330MB(145MB mpeg) version,but you can download other formats.

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[myhomeboy]

the most subtle and awesome thing about this video is how the biker looks back when the beat drops at 0:25

[Bluenile38]

Well done Youtube for not taking this down.

[Marlon Garcia]

the traffic back then was real confusing

[Lis set]

Asombrosa pieza!

[massdrivermusic]

absolutely love this track

[Charles Flaherty]

Actual audio of traffic noise, cira 1905

[Charles Flaherty]

thank you cleaverb...sure you don't mean cleverb

[C Howard]

Awesome video with the perfect soundtrack!

[mateenj42]

new innovative electronic jazz on my channel

[Fuhgl]

Is there a version without the high-pitched tone? It's seriously ruining it for me. It might be so high that older people can't register it.

[1SqueakyWheel]

Those zippy movies you're referring to were filmed at a lower RPM, which efficiently used less film while still telling the same story. However, the projector would display too choppily when turned at the same slow speed as the camera, so they had to increase the playback rate to reduce the inherrent "strobe effect" created by the shutter in a projector being turned too slowly.

This was an expensive 7 minute film right here. And I think it's cool the city let them run it on the trolley.

[1SqueakyWheel]

I believe the primary difference in the speed that you're citing is due to the budget behind what they're doing. This was obviously done as a project for somebody, possibly testing some newly built camera equipment. If the camera is turned faster, it obviously uses more film, creating a higher framerate. This is costly, so it wasn't something that was done often, I'm sure. The uniformity makes me think this was either an electric drive or a speed-governed spring-powered drive, Neato. ;-)