[ A Trip Down Market Street ... on '60 Minutes' ]
A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1906)
"60 Minutes"
Oct. 17, 2010
Historic 1906 Film Captures S.F.'s Market Street
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/14/60minutes/main6958102.shtml
You're about to see a remarkable footnote to history:
a film made more than a hundred years ago on Market Street, San Francisco's main thoroughfare.
In fascinating detail, it shows how people lived and traveled and dressed
in what was then - as now - the Golden City of the American West.
The film is well known to historians. But who made it? And why? And most important, when?
For a century, time, like the fog that blankets San Francisco, had shrouded the answers.
But now we know. The film is a time-traveler's glimpse of a joyous city on the brink of disaster.
Our trip into the past begins on a San Francisco streetcar built in 1895.
There is more to read...
and watch it here - with intro by Morley Safer and music 12:15
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20019755-10391709.html?tag=cont entMain;contentBody
"60 Minutes"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123338/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Brothers
The four Miles brothers, Harry, Herbert, Joseph, and Earle C, were pioneers in American cinema.
In 1902, they established one of the first motion picture exchanges in the United States.
Their 1906 film, A Trip Down Market Street,
is an historic 13-minute journey from 8th Street down Market Street in San Francisco,
shot days before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906 Events of 1906
YouTube - A Trip Down Market Street
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=A+Trip+Down+Market+Street
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