I got that in an email last night. Amazing to me, growing up with all the traffic and pedestrian laws we have, to see what it was like when there were none. Something eerie about seeing an area that would be demolished in the quake and fire just a short time later! Can anyone ID the background music, kinda catchy!
Music: "La Femme D'Argent " from the "Moon Safari" album by Air <!-- #BeginEditable "Main%20Text" --> 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!
Not sure I could drive back then...I'd have run over at least two or three pedestrians, four horses and smacked a couple of cars in the short time frame of that movie.
Truely amazing. As I watched, I caught myself wondering who the people might be, and how the quake affected their lives. Also amazing is that names could be put to some of the images after all these years. Thanks for the info on the music!
that`s worse then the return road at the day of the drags. crazy! get the fuck out of the way didn't work back then either
Good lord, what's up around 2:07 with the classic SF wacko on the bike with the red cape dragging tin cans weaving back and forth across the road in front of the trolly? Some things never change. And then he is back out of no where again at 5:30.
I was just there and it was pretty much the same, stupid divers and pedestrians everywhere just no horses.
I was showen these the other day very cool part 1 http://www.archive.org/details/MasterHa1936 part 2 http://www.archive.org/details/MasterHa1936_2 part 3 http://www.archive.org/details/MasterHa1936_3 part 4 http://www.archive.org/details/MasterHa1936_4