$9.95
Just days before the Great Earthquake and Fire destroyed much of the West’s greatest city, pioneer filmmakers, the Miles Brothers bolted a hand-cranked camera to the front of a cable car and rolled down San Francisco’s Market Street, unknowingly filming the end of an era. Our narrated version, subtly enhanced with the city sounds of horses and early automobiles, provides the social, political, and transportation context for everything you see in this remarkable 12 minute trip from Eighth Street to the Ferry Building. Superb restoration by Prelinger Archive, narration by Rick Laubscher. Available exclusively from Market Street Railway.
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Just days before the Great Earthquake and Fire destroyed much of the West’s greatest city, pioneer filmmakers the Miles Brothers bolted a hand-cranked camera to the front of a cable car and rolled down San Francisco’s Market Street, unknowingly filming the end of an era. The story of this miraculous 1906 film has been told on “60 Minutes.” One of the experts Morley Safer interviewed is Market Street Railway President Rick Laubscher, a fourth generation San Franciscan and local historian. Rick applied all his expertise to create this fully narrated version of the fabled 1906 “Trip Down Market Street, using the best available restoration of this historic film by the Prelinger Archives, which reveals myriad visual details unseen until now.
Our narrated version, subtly enhanced with the city sounds of horses and early automobiles, provides the social, political, and transportation context for everything you see in this remarkable 12 minute trip from Eighth Street to the Ferry Building. Available exclusively from Market Street Railway here online, or at our San Francisco Railway Museum, where you can also watch the film on our audio-visual display. 12 minute runtime. Market Street Railway production. Region 1 encoding, playable in North America.
Additional information
| Weight | 8.0 oz |
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| Dimensions | 9 × 6 × 1 in |
