What difference a century makes

[Gary]

Shot from a streetcar traveling down Market Street in San Francisco. Before the earthquake/fire of 1906 destroyed the area.

Same video, different sound tracks.

This film was "lost" for many years. It was the first 35mm film ever. It was taken by camera mounted on the front of a cable car.

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 quake and shipped by train to NY for processing. Amazing but true!


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[agua.]

Wow that's amazing !. Streetcars, motorcars, horses, cyclists. pedestrians all zigzagging down the same street lol. It looks like the road rules were simply use some common sense. Very cool !

 

[TOG]

About 4 minutes into the film you can see some guys playing at running back and forth in front of the streetcar the camera was mounted on. A short time later there's another guy running along the tracks in front of the streetcar. It seems not everybody used common sense.

The TOG​

 

[Kathi]

Yep,what a difference a second can make.This is our earth before the rapture and tribulation.This is our earth after the rapture and tribulation.I am thinking it would shock you.But alot of people will not see it.Only those who remain.We do not know what lies ahead of us in the next second.We do know what just happened in the past second.Our future is in God's hands.

 

[agua.]

About 4 minutes into the film you can see some guys playing at running back and forth in front of the streetcar the camera was mounted on. A short time later there's another guy running along the tracks in front of the streetcar. It seems not everybody used common sense.

The TOG​

Speed and traffic numbers makes a big difference. I'm guessing they didn't need pedestrian crossings back then and road deaths were very low. It is funny seeing the blokes run in front of the Streetcar trying to get on film and did you notice the 2 bloke "hitching" a ride on the back of the jalopy ?

 

[Claudya]

Still looks like that in Italy: everyone criss-crossing whereever they want. Just faster and without any noticable common sense.