[StBernard] 104 YEAR OLD FILM CLIP

[Westley Annis]

HOW DARE you guys EVER talk about women drivers again!!!  LOL

 

"You are there" for a cable car ride in San Francisco

  

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k 

This film was "lost" for many years. It was taken by a camera mounted on the
front of a cable car as it's traveling down the street. 

You feel as if you're really there, standing at the front looking down the
street-a piece of historic film. 
  
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 up
after the horses? Talk about going green! 

Great historical film! 

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

and recent heavy rainfall, and shadows indicating time of year and 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. 
 
A camera was mounted on the front of a street car 104 years ago.  

Some of the cars had the steering wheels on the right side....when were they
standardized on the left? Sure were still a lot of horse drawn vehicles in
use. Mass transit looked like the way to get around. Everybody had the right
of way! 

Perhaps the oldest "home movie" that you will ever see!!