San Francisco 1906 (New Version) in Color [VFX,60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

I colorized , restored and I added a sky visual effect and created a sound design for this video of San Francisco 1906, A Trip Down Market Street, Shot on April 14, 1906, four days before the San Francisco earthquake and fire. From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building,
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound design only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
✔ SKY Visual Effects (not historically accurate)
Please, be aware that colorization colors and SKY Visual Effects are not real and fake, colorization and VFX was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
Thanks to Prelinger Archives share the amazing B&W Video Source
B&W Video Source from: Prelinger Archives on archive.org
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/MarketStr...
B&W Video Source Rights: under the Creative Commons Attribution License
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[@NASS_0]

Which is better: Life in 1900s or Life in 2024?? Which city would you like to live in in the 1900s??

[@arhiv777]

хз

[@oh2sail]

2024, exactly where I live right now. San Francisco.

[@itzamia]

I would like to see those thugs in San Francisco that walk into stores grab what they want, and walk out try that in 1906. Other than that, 2024. Do you know how boring it was in 1906 compared to 2024. Visit for an hour is ok, but I wouldn't want to stay there.

[@Alise805]

Хочу туда в 1900❤️

[@joeschmoe21]

No Democrats, no Africans, no Illegal Latinos.

[@SteelTwilight]

The kid waving to us at 9:00 had no idea he'd be waving to thousands of people over a hundred years in the future, and many more to come. Fascinating. I wonder where his path in life took him.

[@agura7841]

@sebaswildboy 😳

[@danielblaise156]

Well his path in life ultimately led him to his demise.

[@pawelpablo898]

He is watching himself from the past in another incarnation.

[@javix2013]

Will that kid still be alive in 2022?

[@MrYfrank14]

Probably died in the earthquake that was about to hit.

[@PatriaPrimum]

This is, for me, the closest thing to time travel that we can get so far. Absolutely incredible

[@conmerro789]

I was about to say the same, until I saw you, Mr. Lincoln. As you travelled through time, into the year 2022, only to watch a video set back 100 years ago. Truly magnificent. Well played.

[@SpecialPenguinnn]

Watch out for a guy named John Booth....

[@joebond545]

@@SpecialPenguinnn whos that

[@travisumbel6877]

@@joebond545 John Wilkes Booth was the man who assassinated Lincoln.

[@Manpreet_Singh001]

@@joebond545 killer of abrahim Lincoln.

[@englishandcompositionlearn6745]

I'm fascinated by the eclectic mix of transportation. On one street you've got horse drawn buggies alongside automobiles, and these alongside electric trolleys and bicycles. It captures a very unique moment in time with the 19th century on the way out, but the 20th just being ushered in. It reminds me how in any era you can see those glimpses of "how it's always been" mixed with what is to come.

[@NASS_0]

me to!!!

[@Megatonaxe]

and at the same time what will soon be again

[@jmc8076]

Elec vehicles late 1800s to early 1900s. Look it up.

[@SquidofCubes]

This looks so much cleaner and safer than it does now

[@JustMe99999]

It was less "diverse" - so not surprising.

[@ricky836]

Still better than most of the security cameras 116 years later.

[@DylanRomanov]

It’s cause it’s originally shot on a film camera

[@jacobmaz8157]

@@DylanRomanov imo it shouldn’t really matter too much, like Ik why it looks good ofc, but the bare basic security cameras should be better than this by now, but they don’t unfortunately

[@laynestaley4957]

I mean this footage was massively altered to look better but okay

[@chocomanger6873]

Of course. Security cameras are cheap. This would've been a huge expenditure.

[@hardworkingslacker7233]

CCTVs shouldnt produce a 500 GB video feed in one night though thats why the quality is so meh.

[@alexduran2476]

Big respect to the people of that era who shot that footage for future generations.

[@Sky-qd2mf]

They also built these cities for future generations that have since been destroyed, how does that make you feel?

[@anubis4496]

@@Sky-qd2mf not very bright are you.....

[@UberBossPure]

Look at the person at 1:35 he gets hitted by the car, cameraman don’t care

[@llvnt]

The true religion is Islam. Muhammad is the last prophet.

[@kooptt]

@@anubis4496i mean he’s right, urban renewal in the 50s was a disaster for cities and the communities within them

[@benelleliv]

Fascinating how not a single person alive in that film could have imagined 9.6M people watching them 120 years later.

[@NASS_0]

thx!

[@Starfish-kx3du]

Dang that's really crazy

[@stevelangstroth5833]

I spotted cable car numbers: 124, 125, 22, 204, 115, 172, 34, 211, 128, 213, 167 (?), 143, 171, 226, 157, 33, and 205. Undoubtedly, many of these are still in service. It would be cool to find and photograph them as they appear today.

[@closinginonclosure]

What makes this even more fascinating is that this was filmed just two days before the April 18th 1906 San Francisco earthquake. One of the deadliest events in United States history. Over 80% of the city was destroyed, fires raged throughout the city, and more than 3,000 people died as a result of that earthquake. This isn't only the oldest video of this kind, but it captures images of the city and structures than would soon be gone forever.

[@114D]

I was wondering what happened to some of those older buildings. They would be so charming and added character to America like the building in the UK do. Also, what you said sent chills down my spin. Some of the people in this video may have died 2 days later and this was their moment to be immortalized. That guy at the end seemed like a dude from our time just hands in the air at the sight of the camera like, “Look at me!” We’re all a blink in time.

[@closinginonclosure]

@@114D It's really crazy to think about all of that. Also crazy if you think about how much changes in just a 100 years. What we see in this video looks so old and outdated to us, but they felt they were modern compared to life 100 years before them. Many people in this video were literally seeing a motion picture camera for the first time in their life, in person. That's why you see some people looking at the train car the way they are. At 5:11 for example. It's weird because I look at this video and one of the things I think is, it would be so cool to be there in person and look at all of that history. Then to realize that 100+ years from today, people will watch our videos and think similar things. Like you said, we're all a blink in time. Life is a shooting star.

[@114D]

@@closinginonclosure your comment made me realize we’re also leap frogging through time when it comes to technology. That camera in the train seems like someone went back in time with it Terminator style and people are observing it for the first time. But where we are now as humanity vs 100 years ago technologically is astounding. Crucial discoveries and inventions that literally put us in the future. We have that ebb and flow in our historical timeline but we certainly have not peaked. The next decade will be interesting.

[@MichaelJ44]

God knows how many people in this clip died or get severely injured. Just wish I could shout out to warn them through the screens lol

[@SrsBsn56]

I had google street view up while watching this to see if any buildings still remain. The last building with the clock tower, Ferry Building, you can look at on google street view and see the same "Erected in 1896" sign shown in the video at the 11:15 minute mark.

[@siddrajput1029]

No rules of the road. Carriages, cars, horses, trolleys and people coming in from everywhere. Fun to watch. A 116 year old footage is the oldest thing I've seen.

[@dot7107]

Like a india or africa today...

[@jaminova_1969]

"Hey, no jaywalking!"

[@Prin_Cess_007]

You can find footage from 1890s on here. Pretty cool.

[@sethborne]

This really helps to show what spawned the original "jay" walking ordinances/laws. A "jay" was known as a careless person. So a Jaywalker was someone who was carless as they walked through traffic. Thereby creating a danger to others.

[@johnh23z]

Word is its is a fake scripted video. ' Come down and be in our reset movie. Bring your wagons , vehicles and dress to the nines.' Look closely, no one is going anywhere and everyone wants to be seen by the camera . Many look into the lens. A few days later a 'quake' leveled the city. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWKqo6BqmZKIf6s

[@user-th4pl6fd4e]

Великая сила кино! Этих людей уже много лет нет в живых, а они на экране живы!!!

[@kronwtadt]

Ну ты наглец, я там на велосипеде пацаненком катаюсь, а ты каркаешь, постыдился бы.

[@Robskimask]

We are legit in a Time Machine, these are not actors these are real ppl that was born lived a life and now gone. KZbin is simply amazing. Just in my life time I couldnt have thought we would have ever been able to do this. I was born in 85 so I’m right there in that gap between No internet and internet I saw both sides. The speed that tech is advancing should make everyone wonder. And to think one day it will be all wiped away and some people will have to start from scratch.

[@southsiren]

Yeah those new apple goggles would make it possible to feel surrounded by this scene I feel so lucky to have seen the world evolve from rabbit ears and a phone on the wall to the incredible modern technology I don't know how I ever lived without

[@Noorulwahab1]

Hi

[@Dravoth]

Relax

[@Robskimask]

@@southsirenyooo I didn’t even think of that, 😮 it’s going to be wild

[@abdullateefisa5463]

To think that nobody in this footage is alive today makes you appreciate life more.

[@kimiscool7]

Not only that imagine the kids walking around in this video were about to go through Spanish flu, WW1, great depression and WW2.

[@adefay2811]

Surprised you don’t see a lot of horse feces on the street everywhere. Street cleaners did a great job. Lol

[@austinahagstrom]

@Maynards so blue how?

[@Lukewillcreate]

@@Spawn117 they’re trolling

[@kimiscool7]

@Maynards so blue It's hard to say what will be in our future in the next few decades. It may be worse than those folks in the video.

[@Awebreeze-zm3st]

It makes you realize how short life is. Loved how people just drove any direction they wanted, a few horses running free, boys chasing cars and a girl with a bow in her hair. I was thinking about her fixing up for the day. A moment in time remembered and observed by strangers. This was interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@mal-avcisi9783]

was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.

[@jkidd7608]

@@mal-avcisi9783 probably not. In the description it says the colors were added in but are not necessarily accurate. I bet there was a lot of black though. Very simple. There was probably more white too than what is shown.

[@2pi628]

And ZERO income tax!!!

[@aaronbaraiya3692]

yep, the things lost in history

[@napsguns]

@@mal-avcisi9783 the fake coloring AI chooses dull colors to minimize errors

[@oOKitty86Oo]

As a current resident of San Francisco, but a Los Angeles native, it is insane to me that I am looking at the Ferry building from over a hundred years into the past. As a Millennial, I am so grateful we have these records. They are valuable beyond belief.

[@dudewithamustache5027]

It awesome seeing some notice the camera and stare into it. Looking us in the eyes from over a hundred years ago.

[@hhm140]

Pedestrians cut in front of the streetcar with impunity. Cars and horse-drawn carts veer in and out of traffic lanes and nobody seems to get bothered. That city is alive and this version makes you feel like a part of it. This is great time travel.

[@BL00DYME55]

I was just about to same the same thing. People seem to be so free and chill. No uptight angry drivers shouting at each other or honking or revving their engines aggressively. People are freely crossing the busy road flitering through traffic, and drivers/riders are stopping for them. One guy even ran up to one of the horse wagons and jumped on it to help himself to a lift lol. I love it.

[@Douglas_Hamilton]

Indeed it is, also interesting to see all the cars making U-turns randomly in front of trams and horses.

[@BL00DYME55]

A simpler time

[@mrj3217]

Not one angry person we have gone the wrong direction with our society. It seems the more technologically advanced we get the more we lose our ability to act rational.

[@SEPK09]

and I thought todays standars of driving were bad!!!

[@vicbertfartingclack4559]

This footage was taken a few days before the 1906 Earthquake that devastated this area. Filmed by the Miles Brothers. They came back after the earthquake and filmed again. Shocking loss. This footage was found in a flea market in 2017 according to a news story on PBS NewsHour.

[@naomilee77]

That's funny . Did the film makers know the earthquake was coming ? I bet the timing was impeccable .

[@jamiedimond9419]

​@@naomilee77yes they did. Tartaria

[@frankmarsh1159]

So what's with the black plastic tarp at 8:27? There was no plastic in 1906.

[@lyrand6408]

@@frankmarsh1159 good observation, not sure. plastic was made (or patented) around 1907 from what I've read a moment ago (checked online for this). maybe a 'different' type of plastic was available in 1906 but maybe of cheaper quality or only usable for specific things like making tarps... dunno, not sure what to think of this.

[@kraneiathedancingdryad6333]

That may not be plastic at all, but just some really shiny fabric.

[@CurtisWal]

Horsedrawn carriages next to horseless carriages, the first automobiles. A very pivotal point in human history.

[@AndrayDrake]

The movie san francisco starring clark gable and spencer tracy based on 1906 earthquake this is actually footage before it happened great.

[@Evanderj]

Those good people would be happy to know the traditions of not checking blind spots and cutting others off is still alive & well. Really grateful to see this colorized footage.

[@allancerf9038]

AHAHAHAHA! Great remark. Yep, no one looks especially in Berekeley - they just go for it, cutting people off.

[@truvelocity]

My great grandfather, whom I had a relationship with, when I was a kid… Was a child during this era. He was born in the 1890’s. He told me that he saw 3 major milestones. The invention of the car, the plane and men landing on the moon in his life time. Can you imagine? Wow.

[@abeautifuldayful]

Yours is the first comment I read that talks about our ancestors just while I was thinking about my grandmother who lived many years in San Francisco but not quite born yet. I wonder if she ever saw this film, but I'll bet she never saw it in color with sound (passed away in the early 90s, so before KZbin or the Internet was a thing.) I wish she had, though. It's remarkable. Yet, I've seen at least 3 major milestones like your great grandfather, starting with the moon landing, then personal computers, and now the Internet with sites like this and smart phone connections to everything (I predicted them but so did many others). I guess you could say smart phones are also a major milestone, maybe? Then there's that helicopter on Mars, but don't get me started, lol. That's getting to be old news now too! Edit: Funny, but I couldn't edit this until a day later because I couldn't find the comment and thought it was glitched off the site, which is strange because that never happened to me before. Oh, well. Anyway, I wanted to add some fun facts and another milestone. I'll start with the latter. I think that's the JWST. If you know what that is, then terrific! If not, simply use another milestone I mentioned to find out! lol. Now for a fun fact: If you think the Golden Gate Bridge is a milestone, which I sort of do, then you might know that they had a contest and election to celebrate its grand opening with a "Fiesta" queen. To make a long story short, my grandmother's sister was elected queen. I've seen pictures of her in a book about the bridge showing herself in the queen's attire and crown, but I didn't know until yesterday on the official bridge website that there was some controversy about who actually won the election! Imagine that, in 1937, when President Roosevelt hit the switch to let cars pass over the bridge for the first time, an election controversy was reported in at least one of the newspapers. Fast forward to 2020, anyone? lol.

[@truvelocity]

@@abeautifuldayful , that’s fascinating. You have to keep records of these things, because each person who dies is a book, and each generation is an entire library. We need to know the past in order to progress.

[@abeautifuldayful]

@@truvelocity Yes, you're right. I do have a record of sorts, a photocopy of the chapter in the book showing my relative at that time and picture(s). I'd have to go through some boxes to find it, but I have it! I don't have the book, though, which is all about the Golden Gate Bridge, written decades ago. I read the whole book once many years ago and found it poorly written, lol. I guess that's why I didn't try to get a book copy for something I only wanted the interesting chapter. Btw, the picture I recall best shows her perched on a huge propeller of a plane in her queen attire, very glamorous looking! The website says she was 19 yo, married someone later named Brady, had 8 kids, and died in 1985. I recall my grandma talking about her older sister fondly, but I never met her. I don't think I ever saw them together, and I don't know why. Suddenly, I'm getting more curious all these years later! Thanks for your interest. People are fascinating sometimes, huh?

[@MikeSmith-fs9wh]

My grandpa Mike Olah came over from Romania about 1910- - he was born about 1895. He prided himself on buying new cars as often as possible. RIP the progenitor of the family.

[@RealRapp_FG]

about that moon landing...

[@ernestomelendez6772]

The video quality is superb. Now, the sound is a work of art. Extremely well done!

[@harri2626]

Amazing quality of film. I love the way some of the horse carriages seem to have a wheel width of 4 foot 8.1/2 inches to match the track width of the cable cars to get a smoother ride along the cobbled street! Cable cars on the inner tracks, horse cars on the outer tracks and one electric car crossing over the street at 4min 51sec. The erratic behaviour of the automobile drivers was a portent of things to come!

[@Poisson4147]

YES! The idea of matching wheel widths dates back at least as far as mining carts in the 17th/18th centuries. But of course there the tracks were laid to match wheel widths instead of the other way around. (*) Also this film's been digitized and cleaned up using AI which makes it a lot clearer than the original which was pretty rough-looking. (*) Being a railfan I've done some research on the claim that track widths date back to Roman times, but there doesn't appear to be a lot of primary-source info. Most of the documents quote other documents that point around in a big circle of citations.

[@frankdrebin6069]

The craziest part about this is, they're all gone! Everyone in this video, is gone!!! Only if the camera operator knew how long this footage would last and what it would mean now. Awesome

[@stringypond53]

Fun fact: there is 1 person left alive in the world that was alive when this video was made, a french lady who is 118 years old.

[@wherecanwespeak9246]

No shit Einstein basic math will tell you that

[@omegaweapon116]

And here's the comment I see on every video like this

[@FindingNorcal]

👌💥

[@pumpkindiamond994]

The camera operator was long gone. Didn't even know his footage or video would mean something today.

[@SkoobyShnacks]

Amazes me how the street looks chaotic, yet everyone is calm and cool and just going where they need to go.

[@sosintheselastdayz7448]

Does it amaze you that this city is clearly very old , with old buildings and Roman style masonry , yet we are told it was only a small village of 1000 people until 1849 , that's not only amazing, but impossible 😉

[@king_has_no_clothskul8635]

@@sosintheselastdayz7448 gold rush made it happen.

[@josephujiadughele6035]

No fatty buggy. That's what is more important

[@Gabriel.Farris.California]

​@@sosintheselastdayz7448 Das ist normales Stil-Altbau. Völlig normal um 1900 gebaut. Auch in Deutschland.

[@bofasofa9399]

@@sosintheselastdayz7448 Why are you putting spaces before your commas? You aren't using a typewriter, this is a computer.

[@user-vp4ve7zc1w]

Спасибо водителю что установил камеру видеорегистратор так хоть увидели переходный период неадертальца в человека разумного это просто шедевр для научного общества

[@Godsbest777]

I see driving hasn't changed much!!!

[@jerrysshowroom681]

As a tram driver, i give my respect to those colleagues who managed it to get through this "Traffic chaos" back in that day.

[@McHaro0079]

Well the chaos was kinda staged. You can see license plate 4867 appeared multiple times in the film: 0:17, 1:31, 2:33, 3:41, 5:24, 9:28, plus a few occassions that same kind of car(s) drove across the camera. Same case for a few kinds of cars.

[@jerrysshowroom681]

@@McHaro0079 I know, even if the cars only driving around in circles, it's still causing a chaos.

[@McHaro0079]

@@jerrysshowroom681 True. I would say they were among the first automotive stunt drivers 😅.

[@marielacasanova2110]

Se atraviesan en cualquier parte , un gran CAOS😢

[@jj-sd1uv]

@@McHaro0079 🤣🤣🤣

[@crxl1]

It's crazy to realize that 4 days after this shot was taken, at 5:12 am on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, one of the biggest earthquakes to ever hit Northern California of a magnitude of 7.9 hit and caused the Great San Francisco fire!

[@paulluchter137]

And then 4 days later all those homeless some weirdo was praising 1907 for not showing would make today seem rather meager in terms of homelessness. And few were as non-caring as such people now are.

[@2bueller]

@@paulluchter137 This is most certainly after the earthquake. Lots of masonry and model T's everywhere. But, I do get your sentiment.

[@jacklong7048]

@@2bueller Shot on April 14, 1906, four days before the San Francisco earthquake and fire.

[@tybarker5038]

Impeccable timing. I prefer this to footage of all that wreckage, but it would be fascinating to see.

[@glennriquito381]

My mom's mother turned 21 years old that very same day. Got married later that year.

[@whatwhat9004]

1906: “Traffic laws, what are those???”

[@davidletasi3322]

It's amazing how many early motor cars there were in 1906. San Francisco was wealthy and affluent. The shadows demonstrate that it was filmed around noon, and the precise movement of the camera to the street car tracks indicate it was mounted on a street car. Certainly a slower pace but definitely a bustling city.

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Bbq ribs

[@maskmonkeycustompaint]

You need to see London in the same period, Busy early days of traffic

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Traffic 🚦⛔⛔

[@davecozzie1]

Mounted on a tram?

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Cars 1907

[@Heroesworkshop]

Imagine getting a 1905 Ford Horse and then they come out with a 1906 Ford Car? If you only waited one year. Ooof.

[@nabeelfiqriddin8152]

imagine the person who bought 1905 then HHAHAHAHA

[@RaffleE46]

1905 horse is faster than 1906 ford car though

[@okxack3199]

@@RaffleE46 it wasnt about speed it was about class. Having a car in that time not only showed off your wallet but they were 9/10 “refined” men or women driving them.

[@BOROSKING]

@@okxack3199 price not the same....

[@elias7748]

Yeah but horses still dominated streets in 1906, 1907 , 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911..

[@tomcox22]

Big thanks to whoever did the remarkable job on the remaster but to look this good the original film had to be very good also-incredible!

[@Makeyourselfbig]

Interesting to see the transition from the horse drawn to the combustion engine. Now we have the transition from the combustion engine to the EV. Accompanied by the same complaints and resistance to change.

[@themandaloriancreed5164]

It's so hard to believe that everyone in this film is gone now.its like having a time machine, looking back at this beautiful era.

[@JimHerbertOutdoors]

It's 2022. Its not THAT hard to believe these people are all dead. People dont live that long. ............

[@ToyotaGuy1971]

Why is that so hard to believe?

[@magisterium100]

@@ToyotaGuy1971 Well, maybe because, for those of us over 60 (and even more vividly for those who are 80+), very many of these people were still alive well into the years we were old enough to know them and remember them personally. The kids scattered in this video were only 65 to 75 when I was 10 in the late 1960s. Some of the young adults seen here were still only 80 or so when I was 10. They aren’t just historical ciphers to us; we actually knew people who lived in this time. People 80 years old today could have known people 40 years old in this video, and, of course, everybody younger than that. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to believe... Just sayin’

[@mwamengele]

We’ll all be gone too in 100 years from now

[@ToyotaGuy1971]

@@magisterium100 So being old enough to remember these people makes it harder to believe that after that much time has passed; that people that were living back then are dead? That makes no sense.

[@mrsseasea]

My grandpa would have been 10 years old, he was in WW1 and lived to be 97, it was a great honor to have him into my 20’s. Thank you for showing this old clip.

[@asdf9890]

That’s really neat, thanks for sharing. My grandparents weren’t even born for another 20 years from this.

[@jonburrows2684]

I believe that was Nancy Pelosi at 5:12 mark

[@supremereligion2817]

Yeah they are all our grandpas and grandmas quit energetic which we lack nowdays .

[@timothykozlowski2945]

Your Grandfather was a living history book.

[@llvnt]

The true religion is Islam. Muhammad is the last prophet.

[@Sonia-dg7ux]

I could watch this all day , wow amazing its like a time machine , thank you ☺️

[@rooboy69]

Better Quality than any UFO footage 100 years later

[@_BeastGamerAndy_]

Really makes you feel like a time traveler as everyone stops and stares at you.

[@andysthings3057]

At 4:40, the people to the right are staring into the future and don't even know it. I'm sitting behind this screen staring back into the past. Fascinating!

[@previouslyachimp]

It's somehow utterly chaotic and peacefully languid at the same time. A joy to witness, thank you!

[@mal-avcisi9783]

was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.

[@350kph]

exactly the pace is slow but its still bustling somehow.

[@nellatl]

If you were black back then you were fuc**d

[@FendiGarcon1]

Like a dream

[@cindycristobal8738]

@@mal-avcisi9783 you have to take into account it’s 1906. Colored photos let alone videos doesn’t exist in this period. What little color you can see in this is clearly edited into.

[@_erick.]

The closest time machine we have 😯😍

[@jacquelinejackson4067]

It was a free for all for the traffic. It was amazing. I am glad to be in the 21sy century.

[@netkitten]

I love how much of a free for all it was on the roads back then. Horses and buggies, cars, cars weaving in and out, cars cutting off horses, people just walking right across the road. You can tell that cars were absolutely a new novelty at the time (and they look so flimsy too with the way they move!)

[@normandavidtidiman9918]

Exactly what I was thinking 😂

[@cesarr.63]

You had to be very brave to cross those streets 🤣

[@coffee8814]

better

[@scholaroftheworldalternatehist]

Like a third world country today

[@coffee8814]

@@scholaroftheworldalternatehist nothing like one, these are white people, they are still civilized and much more organized

[@dashoverton1963]

I’m always in awe when I see the sun shining in old film clips and think “wow, the sunlight that shines down on us today is from the same sun.” I know that sounds silly, but it just amazes me.

[@mikekallas6329]

😆

[@jasongravely7217]

Pretty amazing to be alive :)

[@June_815]

It’s not silly…it’s actually quite philosophical and an interesting perspective. I too think stuff like that sometimes and it fascinates me. The past seems quite unreal sometimes and to think someday we are gonna be ancient too and a new generation of people will watch our videos 😬

[@stevenkong8837]

Exactly. And the fact that every single person in this video has walked through their life and passed makes me kind of sad and starting thinking the scene in a hundred years people watching our nowadays videos.

[@moneyruins4141]

Are you black?

[@dianaaffonso7711]

People just walk and drive wherever....no lights, rules or stop signs.....just a way of life!😊

[@doc-holliday-]

Something so eerie about watching footage where you know every single person you see is dead.

[@user-mg2vg9lj2e]

Повозки, авто, лошади, трамваи, люди, все на одной дороге, без правил движения и без аварий. 😊 Как приятно видеть улыбающихся людей. Большой респект операторам ценных видео того времени. Была приятно удивлена, что их так чётко снимали или, возможно, восстановили. 😍👍👍

[@Denip86]

Еще люди все стройные,солидно одеты,очень мало женщин.Не похоже что они возвели этот город,больше похоже на приезжих )))

[@WaNSeR999]

Это путешественник во времени снимает, просто обрабатывает потом все видео специальным фильтром, чтобы не палиться.

[@strufian]

Оригинал - kzbin.info/www/bejne/boKYf6ioa5lleLc

[@user-mg2vg9lj2e]

@@strufian спасибо 🕊

[@smertfashistams]

Отлично работающая массовка!!! Так создавалась история из натянутых как резиновые шары фактов потом лопались заметив несостыковки уничтожались!!!!!!

[@sherri7673]

I think it's cool to see us transitioning from horse and buggy to early motorized vehicles. love this!

[@apostolostvable]

And since cars weren't exactly quick it was easy as a pedestrian to simply walk the streets. Fascinating.

[@TheWorld_2099]

This is a handful of years before the horse became truly obsolete. It’s a shame, because there really wasn’t smog yet, and I’ve read accounts of people saying how dirty and smelly the streets became once motorized cars were the standard.

[@serious.business]

And from motorized vehicles to never leaving the home because of hostile humans and an increasingly hostile climate.

[@Cptrq]

the drivers in cali still drive the same way thats the only thing that hasn't changed lol

[@greenbasterd9425]

People drove like maniacs back then.

[@BishvjeetRazz]

A stunning recreation of San Francisco in 1906, brought to life with color, visual effects, and remastered audio, offering a captivating glimpse into the past with enhanced detail and realism.

[@Poisson4147]

Not really a "recreation" since the source film is definitely real.

[@speteydog2260]

That was interesting! No lights or stop signs. Everybody fends for themselves. Beautiful Video

[@test868]

This is amazing. I only spotted about 25 potential triggers for road rage in this clip, cars cutting in front of horses etc. Everyone appears so chilled about it all.😀

[@eric3434]

Probably not a big deal since they're all doing 7mph.

[@joanna7098]

Only 25?

[@matthewsimpson1268]

I still can’t get over how amazing these videos are. Really transports you.

[@giovannyandrescortesrodrig2846]

I have always imagined if someone from the future could go back in Time, what would these people think about it.

[@user-zn6ro9xg7v]

@@giovannyandrescortesrodrig2846 I think at first there would be small problems, but then we would get used to each other.

[@boratborat8045]

Transport was a to b...

[@nnnnnn3647]

Today everybody will die on street like this. ;)

[@ojivey8273]

I really enjoy conversing with older people who had went through events that we read about in history. My Dad, born in 1920, a time when radio was in it's infancy. He passed away in 2009. He survived the great depression, WW2, the Atomic age, Civil Rights, and the Apollo 11 manned moon landing. He witnessed society at it's worst and society at its best, all in one lifetime, remarkable.

[@mylesmulenga-uz6gd]

It's like looking through a portal into the past😊

[@punkanellylovejoy702]

A portal into your satanic indoctrination

[@wide_awake]

Crazy to imagine after watching this, what would happen only days later from this being filmed

[@piercehubbard4086]

Seeing these videos restored makes it feel so much more real and like it wasn’t really that long ago - which it really wasn’t. 100+ years in history is just a speck of time, it makes you realize how short your life is and how little time you have to do anything special! When I’d see videos like this as a kid, all black and white, like 3fps, it made it feel so ancient to me that I couldn’t even fathom it existing. It’s surreal seeing these videos restored!

[@canadianbeef1958]

I wish it still looked like this.

[@EnglishForu]

كلنا مثلك

[@llvnt]

The true religion is Islam. Muhammad is the last prophet.

[@nehuge]

Yup, my dad is 80, and I'm 50, it's long ago but not. I think because a lot of stuff changed. Look at 2020 to 2023, and how everything went to pot lol

[@TSD438]

I would have loved to been alive in that era. Nothing, but Greed today. They were more civil back then too.

[@balazspetho5070AgroGO]

Thank you very much. I am a Hungarian. My grandfather's older brothers went to San Francisco around this time. We still have letters from them. They write about the city exactly the same like goes on this video. Such a nice thing to see that city now. Amazingly incredible for me.

[@windrose7167]

😗👍🪶📜

[@sunshinerainbow2818]

Proving San Francisco traffic has always been bad.

[@raymondhummel5211]

Enjoyed the video very much. Thank you for sharing it with all of us.

[@rcdyer]

It's fascinating to me seeing at that brief moment in time, when it all was crossing over, people walking, riding bicycles, horse drawn apparatus, cable cars and automobiles all in the same place at the same time.

[@Tractorclay168]

👍✔️🌳

[@sjnmhn]

Electric Tram trains were so slow that cars and people are crossing it just before it comes!!!

[@scottvincent5433]

and a 116 years from now the people of the time will look back at us just as we look at them. We think we are technically advanced - but so did they in 1906 SAN FRAN

[@mal-avcisi9783]

was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.

[@0912sooli]

@@mal-avcisi9783 its no real colors, its just someones coloring so we cant possibly know the real colors

[@andrewvo8395]

I bike through this area almost every week. To see some of the buildings still with the same characteristics today makes you appreciate this moment in time. Incredible video.

[@doylehargraves9243]

Cap

[@V-rf]

Круто! Спасибо за комментарий!

[@drcanoro]

Where is it? to make a comparison "before and after".

[@sashacoxonsound]

@@drcanoro Market Street. Its Ferry Building in the ending of the street.

[@thewitnessfx7397]

@@sashacoxonsound thanks for your information ,it’s incredible for me to view the place at google earth right now.what a wonderful experience .

[@jimmerhardy]

At the time, did these cameramen know they were documenting the past? Beautifully restored.

[@NASS_0]

Thx sir ;)

[@teutone8893]

Wirklich schönes Bildmaterial! Unglaublich, was das für ein Chaos auf den Straßen war. Aber es war offensichtlich nicht so hektisch, wie es heutzutage der Fall ist.

[@jeanmadden2993]

My great grandparents lived in Palo Alto with their seven children. My grandfather was six at the time. The next day, the chimney in their house for fall on his bed during the earthquake, burying him in bricks. His brother and sisters to take him out. They put a big tent in the front yard and lived there, just in case their house caught fire. My great grandfather was interviewing for a job In Massachusetts; my great grandmother wrote and told him about the earthquake. Somehow that letter ended up in the Library of Congress, and I was able to read it a few years ago! This video means so much to me…

[@JohnnyQuanSW]

As an SF local, it's crazy to see how much has changed and how much has remained the same. I can immediately recognize Market St, and the Ferry Building in the background. Not sure if it's the way it's shot, or maybe because of the earthquake, but it seems the street had a slight slope before (it's completely flat today - again, may just be the camera angle). Some interesting things I observed: @1:29 - That angelic statue to the left is Admission Day Monument, still there on Montgomery. Apparently erected in 1897... less than a decade old in the video! @3:18 - The cable car (now buses) took the same exact route, towards Haight & Stanyan! This is where Amoeba Music is today. I notice it says "Park" after "Stanyan" ... that's where Golden Gate Park intercepts the bus route. I wonder if the park was once named Stanyan Park? Because there is a Stanyan Park Hotel just a block away from the stop (apparently built in 1904!). @3:39 - Couldn't help but notice the 767 Market St sign to the right. That's now a boutique clothing store (St. John's). @5:34 - building to the left with the pediment, I think is where the Hyatt Hotel is now, based off the angled direction it is facing the street. Fun to compare on Google Maps (one of the light posts, though different now, matches up where it stands!). @8:20 - Castro & 26th St ... don't recall if this same direct bus route still exists. Think you might have to make a transfer today to get to that same cross street (I don't use the buses much anymore, so I could be wrong) @8:50 - Couldn't help but notice some cable cars with "Chutes" written on them. After some research, seems it was a huge amusement park in the Haight, apparently demolished around the 50s... just a neighborhood area now.

[@MrFlyingmonkeypants]

Thank you for taking the time to list your observations. I've only been blessed to visit SF twice, on week-long business trips, but I very much enjoyed the culture and "feel" while visiting. It seems unlikely I'll ever be able to visit again, so it ia especially nice to read your notes and revisit through your observations on this video.

[@jbrownjetmech-4783]

They should make a video and follow this exact same route for comparison of the new and the old.

[@Malte-Micha]

SF would've been great to li e in back then. It's not so nice to live in now. Cirtain groups have ruined the city.

[@weffyj6427]

C'mon, based on the architecture these great buildings are much older than that. SF was a cow town in 1848 Gold Rush days with barely 15,000 people living there, and you believe that in 50 years not just these sublime buildings sprung up, but think about the sewer systems, utilities and water it would take to make this happen. If you start working out the logistics, you'll find that it's an impossibility. Then there's the date on the building at the end of this vid. "Erected AD 896". Our history is a lie!

[@Malte-Micha]

@@weffyj6427 SF was built very fast, faster than you understand. People had better work ethic them and they git jobs done quick. The buildings are old but not older than you thought. Alot came up in the 1870s and 1880s. However the main town came up in the late 1850s, most of it burned 🔥 down and was rebuilt.

[@parecearabe]

The Civil War ended 41 years prior this film. Anyone captured in this film who was 51 years old would remember the civil war. Any men in this film who were 57 years old may have fought in the civil war.

[@stinkypete891]

One thing for sure that hasn't changed. Is people's driving skills.

[@maryvandeusen3503]

My grandfather, Jack Bell, was in visiting in SF from Canon City CO the day this was shot. He was a prospector, newspaper reporter and naturalist who had just made a major strike. After the earthquake, the newspaper reports noted that he hadn't been heard from and grandmother started collecting supplies to send to SF. He did get back safely. I'm overwhelmed at actually seeing the world he wrote about so vividly. Infinite thanks.

[@mal-avcisi9783]

was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.

[@thisgame2]

Bs bot comment ai test comment. Not fooling everyone. I see the similarities Everytime lame lambda. Try harda

[@sandrabateman3015]

The clarity, color and sounds makes these scenes more real. You wonder who these people were, where they were going, what they were doing. Well done.

[@matthewchunk3689]

My nana says people were generally stinkier back in the day for several reasons (lack of ac, wooly clothing, deodorant technology, etc.) HOWEVER she says she prefers it because the coloreds were polite.

[@Gorgaveli]

Most of the street scene videos on this channel were used for movies and TV. Film was very expensive back then and it wouldn't have been used for no reason. So a lot of these people if not all of them are probably just extras.

[@scruffylee]

3 days after this most of the people you see where killed in a earthquake there is another film that does this trip a week later and all the buildings are gone except the last one the station

[@scruffylee]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIXEqZaOm7iqmqc

[@guilhermedinizdosreis24]

San Francisco is a shithole these days

[@StormyJP]

4 years before my house was built which was in 1910. This is precious, Thank You for the upload! Do you have any of our area, St. Louis, MO?

[@bartwfielder]

I worked for Charles Schwab in San Francisco for 2 years. I worked in a cubical that over looked that ferry building. I remember often looking up out of the window at it. Never thought I would be watching a video from 1906 that had that as the end destination.

[@paulkoenig4107]

Unbelievable, my grandmother was born in San Francisco and was living in the city on the day this was filmed, the earthquake destroyed her family dwelling and her family moved to New Orleans were she met my grandfather and raised my mother. She was 5 years old on this day. Thank you for this window into our past. just spectacular.

[@piratesmurf4251]

is she still alive

[@sjnmhn]

Looks like Automobile is still primitive & not ubiquitous in cities in 1900s, but most people are still walking or cycling!!

[@piratesmurf4251]

@@sjnmhn i highly doubt majority of them.peoples or horse's are alive today tho 🤔

[@BigBlueMotors]

Yes, my grandmother was also born in S.F. in 1906. The family moved to Oakland, as my great grandpa was a dentist and needed to support his new family. I am surprised by the number of automobiles.

[@mal-avcisi9783]

was the city really only black and brown ? did people not wear any colorful clothes ? and where all the advertisments like this colors ? just wondering.

[@helliviknow]

Less than a month after this was taken on May 22, 1906 the US Patent office granted the Wright Brothers patent No.821,393 for a flying machine. I can't get enough of stuff like this. Its so immersive!

[@sigspearthumb8856]

Ha! I bet that patent didn’t go anywhere

[@fractalelf7760]

Closest we will ever get to traveling back in time.

[@theschof96]

It's almost like you wish you could wave to the people!

[@jefferson6527]

Santos Dumont conseguiu antes

[@helliviknow]

@@jefferson6527 Their patent was 1906, they first flew it in 1903 :)

[@atlantis3244]

Who remember a novel, which called "Martin Eden" by Jack London? Action of this novel takes place in San Francisco in early of 190X-th. Market Street is mentioned in the novel. It's so wierd to recognize that all about i've read in this novel could happen right here. Sorry for my French - I am from Ukraine

[@darlenelove7425]

What amazes me is how everyone shared the road. Cars trollies horses bikes pedestrians. No traffic lights or stop signs! I would have lived to be in a world like that!

[@metsrus]

interesting to see the transitioning from horse carriages to automobiles.

[@CBG2895]

All the kids at the very end of the video getting all excited just absolutely warms my heart. Little did they know we would be seeing their face again 116 years later.

[@wbishop1330]

Or that everyone would have a camera.

[@mplight2941]

That's my fave part. Kids with jobs! Paper Boys!!! But still being kids 💙

[@trevorvanbremen4718]

If YOU had been one of those kids you'd probably be a bit excited too!!! After all, some strange looking person is driving down the main road in his shiny new Tesla Roadster while he live streams a video on his Samsung Note 14

[@blue3381]

or that someone (me) would be watching him 116 years later on my phone.

[@chunhaylee]

No different from us waving when the Google street view car drives by.

[@mr.b3837]

This really is fantastic footage. You have horse drawn carriages of various types along side new cars. All this with no lines in the road or crosswalks. Wow.

[@markplott4820]

there were even a few Horse Drawn street car still. poor Horses.

[@TricksterDa]

This footage explains why traffic rules were invented. LOL.

[@cookingisart2050]

No lights no traffic cops

[@barondesena]

There is one cop crossing the street observing the camera like he’s thinking about a shakedown. Cops didn’t get paid for about a year onetime and nobody quit they got pay of a private type. I was a SF police officer and we had a bagman for the station . Traffic signs and crosswalks didn’t come into use until the late 1920’s but market street even now is a hazardous place for pedestrians.

[@lamrof]

What best is there than to time travel and see our past.

[@thechosenone5644]

Cars constantly overtaking carriages during this intermediate period looks hilarious. Absolutely charming though

[@marknolette7232]

Just 60 years before this, SF was a small town that belonged to Mexico! This city had already seen great changes in the lifetime of these people!

[@Poisson4147]

Between the gold rush and Comstock Lode, they were rolling in $$$. It must've been a wild ride!

[@ImmortalKxlla]

This is just increadible. Absolutely stunning... speechless. Just to think every one in this Video is gone. Including the camera man. This is time travelling right here. It is crazy how far we have come. Not in a billion years would anyone think then I would be watching this through a phone via internet on a app called KZbin. Absolutely just incredible. This is going in my top 50 best KZbin videos of all time playlist. Absolutely remarkable mate well done.. Don't take things for granted Have as much time as you can with family Meet friends Be social

[@georgesullivan4473]

In 100 years time everyone pretty much in 2022 will be gone too, everything is relative, I don't think people in 2122 will be taking pity on us though, as God only knows what state the planet will be in by then.

[@jaydickey1049]

Most of them have been gone for 60 or 70 years or more. Many of them died four days after this was filmed....

[@ImmortalKxlla]

@@jaydickey1049 craaazy

[@somevids4187]

@@jaydickey1049 what happened 4 days after?

[@PabloEnver]

Im so curious to know about your best 50 videos ever

[@rbz0]

It's really astonishing how remastering this in color, and with a higher framerate, completely changes the perception of the scenes filmed. Restored footage like this brings us much more emotionally closer to the past. While before you had to consciously bridge that gap, now it's utterly effortless. This could have been filmed an hour ago.

[@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300]

This is like peering into another past life.

[@lawrence.porter]

This just shows the reason why we should keep film as a recording medium.

[@bazza945]

The film was sent off on the evening of the day it was filmed, heading by the Trans-Continental railroad to New York, where it was processed. There were no processing labs on the West Coast at this time. That's the reason why the film exists today.

[@johnworrall3646]

Good info , thanks !

[@Sbangfpv_]

What a journey

[@cryvsspy]

how do you know?

[@paulluchter137]

@@cryvsspy There were newspapers.

[@bazza945]

​@@cryvsspy Hi, the finding of this "lost in time" film was reported widely at the time. The info was the film survived because it wasn't in SFO when the earthquake struck, because it was shipped off immediately to the East Coast. Judging by photos and early films showing the damage after the EQ, it's likely the unprocessed film would have been lost, possibly in the fires and early film was made of highly inflammable nitrate stock.

[@YoreHistory]

As a student of history what always fascinates me about stuff like this is think...every single person alive in that thriving city at the time is no longer with us. We are witness to an echo of the past...people living their lives much as we do and yet now no longer with us. Hauntingly beautiful.

[@michaeles1644]

Yes! This is truly beautiful! There is so much more for you to study though. So much "proof" in this clip. if people could just WAKE UP & OPEN THEIR EYES! There is a reason why this "movie" was made originally...skyscrapers & horse buggies lol...a major earthquake four days later (man made)...the "one" was added to the year 896 on the building after the fact....Study "Tartaria". Study "Hidden His-story of Man and the Deep State". We are slowly, but surely, waking up. Welcome to the Show;)

[@rileyxxxx]

I get it , its like watching into the nightsky discovering the light of the past.

[@YoreHistory]

@@rileyxxxx Well said RileyX :)

[@ericksurfubatuba4530]

Observamos a impermanência da matéria,o agora é o melhor momento, é a única coisa que temos de verdade é o tempo presente.

[@isirwinalot]

I was thinking the same the moment the video started , Moment Capture in Time 💜

[@mlopez2aol]

oh my god this is beautiful! thank you! cheers from palm springs!

[@Fab-ve3fl]

C'est génial cette archive...!! Et un côté hypnotique.. c'est un voyage dans une époque qui était, je penses, encore tranquille..avant l'arrivée de 14.... Super boulot les restaurateurs..!!! FABRICE ❤❤❤❤

[@phillipecook3227]

Just occurred to me: this is exactly what you'd see if you landed in a time machine and looked out through the window. Incredible footage.

[@llJeezusll]

Crazy how so many of them didn't look both ways when crossing the street So confident that people weren't going to hit them

[@pothoofder]

traffic wasn't that fast back then, and i imagine you could hear the hooves or engines approaching :)

[@UnknownCosmos]

@@pothoofder Yeah, and back then I’m sure the automobiles and coaches weren’t something they worried about as compared to other things. Plus, the road rules were basically non-existent back then, which makes it scary as there were probably thousands of traffic accidents and deaths that didn’t even make the front of their local newspaper.

[@TheGoombaslayer]

@thechinesething they got hit all the time. Children especially. Back then motorists killed hundreds and hundreds of people every year. So much so, Ford started a propaganda campaign against pedestrians or "Jay" walkers. (Jay used to be an insult.) He did this to put motorists in the best light possible and shaped the idea of American freedom. If people got hit they were being dumb and to have a car meant being truly free.

[@tsuttman78]

Awsome experience!! Its like i took a time machine back to 1906 and rode the trolly through S.F in my POV. Please find more vids on ke this. Thank you.

[@user-ik4bn4nx9h]

Невероятное ощущение!!! Когда ты видишь людей которых уже давно нет- а они живые и живущие! Хочется помахать им рукой поприветствовать и улыбнуться! 20тый век ещё в самом начале- он принесет так много нового- хорошего и плохого- ужасного и прекрасного- ещё живы все те которые будут на Титанике!!! Люди!!! Живущие в 1906м!!! Что вы думали о нас ЖИВУЩИХ в 21м веке??? Какой стала наша маленькая планета земля!!!???

[@barondesena]

I was a police officer in san Francisco and worked around lower market street I recognize some of these structures are still standing today! It’s a ghostly view of people long gone and a time forgotten yet existing in stone.

[@wileecoyote5749]

You're a liar. No way would be alive since 1906 and being a cop at time.

[@Island_Line_Rail_Productions]

@@wileecoyote5749 you do realize that he was a cop recently...not 100 years ago....right??..............right?

[@lunakat7020]

@@Island_Line_Rail_Productions Right 😆

[@gamingchinchilla7323]

@@wileecoyote5749 he never claimed he was from that time period... he just recognizes those landmarks were still standing when he was in service there much more recently. :P

[@bobcurry5784]

@@wileecoyote5749 He meant that he USED to work at that area and that some of the buildings in the video are still standing and he recognized them.

[@SeaBear77]

The good old days. San Francisco, without a single strung-out, drug addled homeless person living in tents on the sidewalk or sleeping in the storefronts. No used needles in the street, no human feces in the alleyway, not a shred of garbage in sight, no drug dealers. Whoever said that "progress" was a good thing?

[@lookoutforchris]

This was before San Francisco was gay.

[@suecox2308]

I love seeing this, but daily life then was no picnic. Cocaine, opium and weed were legal, so my bet is there were a number of people sleeping it off in quiet corners. I see horse dung, unsafe driving (to say the least!), children who should be in school selling newspapers and driving carts, a street that looks in need of repair, pedestrians dodging dangerous traffic, vehicles carrying too many passengers, no seatbelts, women in skirts dragging on the roadway trying to climb onto cablecars, dangerously overloaded carts, at least a few undernourished horses, badly maintained vehicles, smoky exhausts, one cop who seems to be smoking on the job, which had to be against regulations. . . sometimes progress really is a good thing. ;-)

[@brulsmurf]

agree. America was as mistake. We should never have colonized that shit piece of land. Long live the queen!

[@ericdeer5887]

@@lookoutforchris mountains of horse shit everywhere…

[@brianmeen2158]

This is great. I’m so drawn in by how different things looked I just wish we could get footage like this from San fransisco in 1806 😊

[@kathleenking47]

Alta CA Mexico It wasnt a state until 1850

[@kevino2578]

Nice to know the drivers haven't gotten any better

[@TricksterDa]

I keep thinking about the cameraman who made this remarkable film. The motion picture camera of his time did not have motors, so that meant he had to operate the camera manually, turning a crank continuously the entire length of Market Street.

[@janecameron2668]

Really, I had forgotten about this detail. Thanks for reminding us. Amazing, just amazing!

[@auggie803]

@@janecameron2668 -I was getting ready to comment on that detail about no electric motors. I took all this for granted & did not give hand cranks a second thought.

[@frankvitucci5677]

Do you find it odd that the very next day after he made this film the earthquake happened

[@Black8White]

@@frankvitucci5677 The controllers knew of the event ( or caused it ). Anyways at least they sent this guy (or woman) to record the pre event scenery.

[@frankvitucci5677]

@@Black8White I totally agree with you,

[@depressedchargersfan8061]

You can tell just how astounding a video camera was back then just by the looks on the citizens faces as they see this giant piece of new technology. Truly amazing.

[@colinstevenson6984]

They didn't have "video cameras" - this was film.

[@nekoneko5777]

but the fact is ppl do exact the same reaction now when they see someone shooting outside. in this video not everyone overreacted n some waved or stared, that's same as us too lol

[@postoffice146]

No video, no electricity. Film camera with hand crank.

[@googoo-gjoob]

@@colinstevenson6984 any camera which captures 'video'

[@googoo-gjoob]

@@andrewm9162 'video' is _visual._ whether digital or analog. if you *see* it, its video.

[@traceyaz125]

Incredible. Thank you for posting.

[@NASS_0]

welcome ;)