San Francisco, 1906. Turn up the volume and travel back in time! This film was “lost” for many years. It was the first 35mm film ever. It was taken by camera mounted on the front of a cable car. The number of automobiles is staggering for 1906. Notice that all the cars apparently have their steering wheels on the right side. The clock tower at the end of Market Street at the Embarcadero wharf is still there. (I’m also wondering … how many “street cleaning” people were employed to pick up after the horses? (Talk about going green!) And no traffic lights, no cross walks, no painted lanes, no road signs, no cell phones – yet folks seemed to survive okay……….& obviously no pedestrian or driving rules or laws. Notice how much better dressed they were in 1906.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 quake and shipped by train to NY for processing. Amazing but true!
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They are all so reckless!
No regard for rules of the road, perhaps they hadn’t worked out the rules?
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Amazing I love the way everyone walks about on the road.
@ilovehalloween16 The surviving ones still are!
There was another video with this footage that had Air’s “La Femme D’Argent” as music and it was incredible – unfortunately the copyright nazis came and took it down for some reason, don’t suppose anyone still has it?
thanks so much for this..made my day
My goodness those people took risks on the roads. Everything and anything goes here!
Now i understand the 25 MPH speed limit law,,,look at this
horse poop on the street.
Looking at this San Franciso was very advanced in 1906. Electric cable cars, not horse drawn and motor cars everywhere. Very impressive.
@DisneyBlackJet You’re welcome!
@ilovehalloween16 Thank you!
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Does anybody know the name of that Billy Murray song in the beginning? I love it!
This street (like most likely were) was a big no-man’s land. People stand around in the middle of it, talking, cars and horse-drawn wagons drive on whatever side of the road, or perpendicular to the road’s direction, cutting trolleys and each other off, not to mention pedestrians. Nobody had to have a driver’s license or insurance. Times sure were different.
@s9729883a Still 1960′s….. It doesn’t matter where it is… the hippies were still in the 1960′s…
@ilovehalloween16 But this is San Francisco.
@s9729883a Dude, you’re 54 years off. They’re in the 1960′s, not 1906…
Where the hippies?
Early 20th century cars. Such antiques.
This is just great. Love the clothes and cars. Must have been very dangerous for pedestrians though. And driving a car must have been a nightmare with all of those slow wagons and fast trolleys.
So beautiful cars!
notice how they actually ran in public
its a sure bet…. EVERY PERSON IN THIS film that you seen is dead….. if this can give u an idea of how old it is….
@2qewl4u 1) Obviously not and 2) That was 1840′s-1860′s