Aidan
master brummie
GGJean shared this link with me (Thanks ) and as it doesn't appear to have been posted before thought I'd share it wider.
Ok - it's Market Street, San Francisco not Birmingham - but I think it gives a startling flavour of what our own city streets may have been like 100 years ago - so surprising that when I first viewed it I thought it must be a fake in that it looks too good to be true, with every type of transport seemingly represented - I leave it to you to decide and comment. It's only 7mins long and worth viewing full screen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k
Googlemaps streetview shows the current view on Market Street with the tramlines and the clock at Embarcadero Wharf still in situ https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=37...=ZKi5eOmPV8S1_TcpcH9zOA&cbp=12,55.17,,0,-2.73
The following info was included: This film was was taken by a camera mounted on the front of a cable car in San Francisco. This film was originally thought to be from 1905 until David Kiehn with the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum figured out exactly when it was shot. This was done 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. Records show when the cars were registered and Kiehn says he even knows who owned them and when the plates were issued! This was filmed only four days before the Great California Earthquake of April 18th 1906 and then shipped by train to NY for processing. Quite a story!!!
The full 14min video without music (but appears to be more compressed) is available from https://outside.in/california/tags/Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Different qualities of the full video can be downloaded and kept from https://www.archive.org/details/TripDown1905 (recommended for buffer-free play in any case)
Apparently, Ernie Gehr used and extended this footage to create his film "Eureka" in 1974 https://www.canyoncinema.com/rentsale.html - if anyone finds a clip to download, please share it (possible link at https://arttorrents.blogspot.com/2008/02/ernie-gehr-eureka-1974.html but I can't work out how to access ... help!! :boohoo: )
Ok - it's Market Street, San Francisco not Birmingham - but I think it gives a startling flavour of what our own city streets may have been like 100 years ago - so surprising that when I first viewed it I thought it must be a fake in that it looks too good to be true, with every type of transport seemingly represented - I leave it to you to decide and comment. It's only 7mins long and worth viewing full screen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k
Googlemaps streetview shows the current view on Market Street with the tramlines and the clock at Embarcadero Wharf still in situ https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=37...=ZKi5eOmPV8S1_TcpcH9zOA&cbp=12,55.17,,0,-2.73
The following info was included: This film was was taken by a camera mounted on the front of a cable car in San Francisco. This film was originally thought to be from 1905 until David Kiehn with the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum figured out exactly when it was shot. This was done 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. Records show when the cars were registered and Kiehn says he even knows who owned them and when the plates were issued! This was filmed only four days before the Great California Earthquake of April 18th 1906 and then shipped by train to NY for processing. Quite a story!!!
The full 14min video without music (but appears to be more compressed) is available from https://outside.in/california/tags/Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Different qualities of the full video can be downloaded and kept from https://www.archive.org/details/TripDown1905 (recommended for buffer-free play in any case)
Apparently, Ernie Gehr used and extended this footage to create his film "Eureka" in 1974 https://www.canyoncinema.com/rentsale.html - if anyone finds a clip to download, please share it (possible link at https://arttorrents.blogspot.com/2008/02/ernie-gehr-eureka-1974.html but I can't work out how to access ... help!! :boohoo: )
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