[Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire, A]

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PLEASE NOTE: A much higher-quality DV version (2.3 GB) now available at http://www.archive.org/details/TripDownMarketStreetrBeforeTheFire

Pictures San Francisco's main thoroughfare as seen from the front window of a moving Market Street cable car, before the downtown area was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. This unusual record has been called the first "structural film" because it follows exactly the externally imposed structure of the car ride.

Here is a post from the SFGate blog that explains some of the history of this film and how film scholar David Kiehn discovered that it was in fact produced in 1906 (just before the quake and fire), not 1905: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/stew/detail?entry_id=62237

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Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

Licence or status

Public domain (Creative Commons dedication), as the Internet Archive states it.

Rights statement

Creative Commons Public Domain license.

Credit

Miles Brothers

Country

United States

Subtitles

Automatic captions

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