Posts: 1628
From: Savage, MN, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
posted July 12, 2011 10:49 AM
Did anybody catch the segment on 60 minutes sunday that showed a film from 1906 it was attached to a cable car and traveled down market street this was days before the city was hit from the 1906 earthquake, very interesting segment here is the link it shows the whole 11 minute film in HD restored.
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From: Bothell, WA, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
posted July 12, 2011 11:38 AM
That was amazing. Just watching the interaction of pedestrians, horses, horse drawn carts, bicycles, cable cars, etc is mesmerizing. It almost seems choreographed.
posted July 12, 2011 01:44 PM
I saw that rebroadcast too. What amazes is that they shipped out by train the film the very night before the earthquake struck, and no doubt many of the people you see in the film only had but hours to live ...
... and yet, frozen, alive, in time, on celluloid!
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From: Cottage Grove OR
Registered: Dec 2010
posted July 12, 2011 01:49 PM
A companion piece to this film should be Blackhawk's 'The Destruction of San Francisco', it's a silent 400' reel that shows the aftermath of the earthquake. I have it and it's a good documentary, some of it shot with Edison's cameras.
posted July 14, 2011 10:25 AM
I was quite struck by just how good this ancient film looked on 60 minutes. I'd like to watch the complete restored version.
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