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This film 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`s traveling down the street in 1906 --- 104 years ago!. You feel as if your really there, standing at the front looking down the street. The clock tower at the end of Market Street at the Embarcadero wharf is still there. This was apparently filmed only four days before the Great California Earthquake of April 18th 1906.
That has been around on the web for a while. The speeds are deceptive because of the difference in playback speed vs/ real speed. Also, the lens is slightly telephoto, which makes people appear closer to the camera than they are.
I time travel like this all the time. Look for videos of the Mt. Lowe trolley for some neat shots of a narrow gauge trolley careening on a bridge over a precipice.
Magazines can have photos and stories that are even more insightful. Just got through reading an article in the National Geographic about the last of the Samaritans (remember the story of the good Samaritan?) holding their Passover blood sacrifice back around the time of WW I.
The interesting thing about this? The sheer mayhem on the streets. If you pay attention, it was a free-for-all with cars weaving in and out, cars driving up the wrong side of the road, pedestrians everywhere, horse-drawn wagons going wherever they pleased, etc. etc. If this happened in modern San Francisco, the death toll in a day would be higher than the 1906 earthquake.
The interesting thing about this? The sheer mayhem on the streets. If you pay attention, it was a free-for-all with cars weaving in and out, cars driving up the wrong side of the road, pedestrians everywhere, horse-drawn wagons going wherever they pleased, etc. etc. If this happened in modern San Francisco, the death toll in a day would be higher than the 1906 earthquake.
No, San Francisco would just look like Hanoi, where everyone just figures out a way to cope with it. .. . . . YouTube - Hanoi Traffic
32 people a day die in Vietnam in traffic deaths, despite having only 600,000 cars in a country of 85,000,000. Believe what you want.
Most are on cycles, and a terrifying number of them are probably pedestrians. In Hanoi, I mostly just gave up trying to walk across the road. It takes nerves of steel, and an iron faith that the cyclists will avoid hitting you.
Are you sure this wasn't filmed in Ann Arbor?!? All these years I thought the mayhem in the streets was from foreign students who were used to driving on the wrong side of the road, or the autobahnen, or from some emerging country where traffic laws were the least of their concerns. Now I find out it was just a bunch of students from northern California!?!
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