Badges - 105 Year Old Film Clip

From: Charles Rahn <c.t.rahn@xxxxxxxx>
To: Badges 1Badge <badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:49:36 -0400
Watch for the cop carrying his "billy".



     
105 YEAR OLD FILM 
CLIP
 
    This  film was "lost" for 
many years.  It was the first 35mm  film ever that has come to 
light.  It was taken by camera mounted on the front  of a 
cable car as it`s 
    
traveling down the street. You feel as if your really 
there, standing at the front looking down the street, amazing piece of historic 
film. The number of automobiles 
    is staggering 
for 1906. Absolutely  amazing!  The clock tower at the end 
of   Market Street   at the  Embarcadero wharf is still 
there.   
    ... How many 
"street cleaning" people were employed to pick up after the horses? Talk about 
going  
green!
 
   Great  historical film!
  
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 Great 
  California  
Earthquake of April 18th 1906 and shipped by train to NY for processing.  
Amazing, but true!

  No wonder there had to be laws created to 
regulate driving habits. This is insane. Good thing they couldn't go very 
fast.
 
  This is a fascinating movie. A camera on the front of 
a street car 105 years ago.  I watched it a couple of times.  Look at 
the hats the ladies were wearing and the 
  long dresses.  Some 
of the cars had the steering wheels on the right side,  I wonder when they 
standardized on the left?  Sure was still a lot of horse drawn vehicles 

  in use.  Mass 
transit looked like the way to get around.  Looks like everybody had the 
right of way.
 
  Perhaps the oldest "home movie" that you will 
ever see!
 
        
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k


                                          

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Badges - 105 Year Old Film Clip

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