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Bike-Walk Alliance of NH ==
San Francisco, 1906 -- 105 YEAR OLD FILM CLIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k
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 traveled down the street. You feel as if your really there, standing at the front looking down the street -- amazing piece of historic film. 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 upafter the horses? Talk about going green. And check out all the bicyclists doing "everything wrong!"
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!
No wonder there had to be laws created to regulate driving habits. This is insane. Good thing they couldn't go very fast.
This is a fascinating
movie. I watched it a couple of times. 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 was 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. Just think everything that was alive back
then is now long gone, people, horses, dogs and much of the buildings and equipment.
This is perhaps the oldest "home movie" you will ever see!
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k
The above text and link submitted to BWA-NH by Al Shuman of New Boston, NH.