Just found this on another forum. Pretty good video if you ask me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k

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 upafter 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 104 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!

 

Ver very cool!! I'll bet blue remembers them days for sure...

 

I took a RTVF class at TCU back in the day and was fascinated by the old films and silent movies. Pretty cool stuff.

 

Cool music too.......

 

its as if everyone is trying to get hit. the pedestrians esepecially looking at the trolley while crossing.

 

crazy

 

I didn't see one bare head. EVERYONE had hats on. Just think of the technology and the knowledge that mankind has acquired in just 100 years. From horse drawn buggy to the Space Shuttle and beyond. Very cool stuff.

 

Exactly, that's what I like about old videos like that. Has to make you wonder though if in 100 years if someone saw a video of us, is it going to look like we had "no" technology next to what they have?

 

That's pretty cool.

 

Didn't see any overweight Americans either.

That proves the film is original just based on that observation.

 

I kept waiting for someone to get hit! LOL Loved the kids jumping on the back of the car! Pretty cool!

Jim

 

Bet you could get away with a DWI back then.

 

Chilling fact: 99.9% of everyone in that film is dead.

 

Very true!!!!!