The Screening Room / Early Cinema
A Trip Down Market Street
1906 · 13 minutes · Black & white
[FILM: A Trip Down Market Street, 1906]
A camera on the front of a cable car rolls down San Francisco’s Market Street, through horses, cars, cyclists and pedestrians dodging in every direction. It was filmed days before the great earthquake and fire of April 1906 destroyed much of what you see.
Watch for
- The newsboys running alongside, staring straight at the camera.
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