San Francisco Market St, Full & Repaired Version

Amazing new Info on this film..!
FYI: A Trip Down Market Street was filmed in 1906!! 4 Days Before The Quake.

Dir...Miles Brothers.

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. 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 knows who owned them and when the plates were issued).. It was filmed only four days before the quake and shipped by train to NY for processing. Amazing but true!
Copied from..www.archive.org.

A trip down Market Street. The original version of which can be downloaded at....www.archive.org...suffered badly from "Film Roll" at the beginning and end, this version however has had those faults corrected and shows alot more detail particularly at the end were the film froze and skipped frames.




Track - Cafe Del Mar (Underworld Mix)

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[CodexArgenteus]

This is so amazing! I love old films of daily life - you really get a feel for the times.

And...okay, so, maybe it IS promotional...but, still,..

Also, did people really drive that insanely?! How many near-fender-benders can you spot?

Was the film done on a streetcar or an actual automobile? Because, we keep following the streetcar tracks but everything else just keeps going back and forth across.

P.S. The music is neat - but probably not what they would've been listening to! :)

[Eightbanger]

The whole thing was shot from the front of a Cable Car.

Glad you enjoyed it...:)

[DFWmetro]

This was not the normal Market Street traffic for that time in 1906; it was perhaps a promotional film. In this film most people were recruited to make San Francisco look livelier. Notice that the same motor cars make many U-turns to reappear in the film and every person is wearing a hat to look dressy with the exception of only one. Can you find that person? It is also eerie to see that most people in the film died just for days later in the earthquake.

[Eightbanger]

With the exception of the cars which were indeed asked to repeatedly circle the cable car to give the impression SF had more automobiles, this was in fact completely normal everyday life, the reason for the films success is just that, it is heralded as a complete unedited document of everyday life from an extremely important time in the life of SF. Everyone, man, woman & child wore hats over a hundred years ago they were certainly not for the benefit of the camera.

[randyf1234321]

Why are people complaining about the music??? This track is Hauntingly PERFECT for this footage. Look how the beat fits with the pace of the people walking; the cars, the horses; the kids playing; even the shaking of the camera from time to time fits the rhythm. Well Done, Eightbanger....thanks for posting this.

Man, what a trip! The white horse galloping at 4:07 freaks me. What happened to that rider and his horse 4 days later............

[Eightbanger]

Thank you...glad you liked it.

[Vernon Steinkamp]

My grandparents escaped from there with a horse drawn cart. After a 3 day journey, they ended up in Tracy.

[Maafa1619]

Then and than are not interchangeable, you stupid old fuck.

[narabdela]

God save us from ignorant comments like this one. Are Americans really so undereducated?

[Giovanni Montana]

I bet they lived much better then we do today under Obama Democratic rule

[Bongo Brian]

They are all just Ghosts now.

Search youtube for 'Mitchell & Kenyon Glasgow'... More beautifull ghosts from my home city. ;0)

[Lekid23]

It's true that it might seem like it but people seem genuinely surprised by the camera mounted on the cable car.

[idontknow3746]

This is quite cool

[tiberiousss]

I agree it was probably a promotion. Most likely just a big sign on the trolley. Yes there were three or four vehicles who kept appearing in the film. Kids running in front of the trolley. But the rest of this traffic is obviously legit. Many seemed unaware or gave it little or no attention at all. We see momentary attention as they most likely saw the sign, then went about their business. The quake and fire cause much destruction but not that many died. Death estimates between 700 and 3000+