Morley Safer reports on a mystery that was solved about a 100-year-old film that we now know was made on San Francisco's Market Street just days before the 1906 earthquake.
This film is priceless. My Papa, who was born in S.F. In 1885, possibly walked down Market St. on the day that film was made. He walked everywhere. Interesting to see Market St. through his eyes.
I just remembered that my great-grandfather was the president of the Market Street Railway, which ran these streetcars - but that was a few years later, around 1910-1915.
absolutely a treasure from the past. May San Francisco stay as beautiful as it is today. 2015. my son and his wife live there. I have visited many times and love it. Awesome
Just occasionally, the world serves us notice that we are here only by its good graces. Life as we know it can change quickly, because of a new virus, or an earthquake, or a hurricane. When I watch this footage, my appreciation for life is renewed. Each day is a blessing. We are not guaranteed anything on this Earth. May we all cherish the tine we are given, and those we share it with.
This is as close to a time machine as we may ever come. Essentially what we are seeing is what existed on that day in 1906, exactly as our own eyes would have seen it. Not a drawing or written account, but a precise image of what existed. Because we live in the “eternal now” the past and future are as inaccessible as a distant galaxy. But with all the film that exists today, people 100 years from now, just from news broadcasts alone, will know every intimate detail of our lives. Nothing will have to be left to guess work.
Very indebted to David for his unflagging efforts! Thanks to him! Great 60 Minutes segment. Anyone interested in Silent Films made in the Bay Area should visit the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Niles (Fremont).
Fantastic story and fascinating history. There was no measurable rainfall between April 1, 1906 and April 22, 1906. How standing puddles of water were still there two weeks after the last rainfall is puzzling. The Miles Brothers said it was filmed "one week before" the earthquake, which would fix it around April 11, and evidence strongly suggests it was a Saturday (since businesses were open and kids were not on Easter vacation from school until the week of April 17), which would be April 8 not April 15.
It's been pinned down to four days before the quake. And remember SF had municipal water supplies so the puddles could be from drains, hydrants, street-cleaners, or any similar sources.
*Bravo David,* your intuitive desire for a clarity of a time gone by, gives us splendid visual and yet a heartfelt sadness, none with us today, and some left way early. That hard to define essence one gets when viewing actual subjects and events of the past, (like footage of the Titanic), can be an oddly familiar yet a gray sad feeling... A mixed emotions in the now. Wonder what that is ...?
An interesting effort to research and connect the film to a time frame...which, if not definitive, is very convincing. The use of projector sound effects, I think, is to indicate to the average 60 Minutes viewer that were looking at film. Many older people will key into the sound and even younger people, who have no or very little knowledge of movie and still film procedures will "get" the idea that they're not looking at images from the digital age. Many people have no idea how camera images are recorded in either the previous film era or our present age.
When he said the Video Started Around 8th Street, I got on Google Maps and Looked up the Hotel Whitcomb only place I've stayed at in SF. AND 8th Street and Market was The Intersection. Mind blown walked those side walks Back to the Whitcomb on the Left
San Francisco population in 1870 approximately 140,000. In 1900 approx. 340,000. This is all at a time when virtually the entire population was clustered around the Market Street downtown area (east of Van Ness & just south of Market), a very concentrated 3-4 sq. mile area. A side note, S.F. 1846 pop. approx. 200..... (6 yrs. later) 1852 approx. 36,000. In a little over 40 years, San Francisco went from a Frontier, Wild West small Outpost w/ a pop. of 200 to the 8th largest American city in 1890 with a population of almost 300,000.
@@user-eb5cb6ud1p SF had Massive sea-going value, an unmatched natural bay, natural resources & beauty that would attract millions to the Edge of the N. American continent. Something that the Spanish & Mexicans could never appreciate; to their lose. This is something that is being repeated again in my hometown SF, by Know-Nothing Politicians who wield around their authority like a child waiving around their father's gun.
Mr. Lough doesn't have to be so rude.But, I will add that the water may have been there because the city washed down the streets, especially after the pandemics of the 1890's.
I thought it was well known that the film dated to April 1906! From what I've read it was only 4 days before it happened. And how come they don't talk about the SECOND FILM that was done along the same line showing Market after the destruction?
@VideosTester Yeah I'm annoyed every day when tv shows/ commercials play the sound effect of a battery powered film advancer for a camera as if it's the sound of a picture being taken, when it's just a still taken from video, or from a digital camera.
@VideosTester Yeah I'm annoyed every day when tv shows/ commercials play the sound effect of a battery powered film advancer for a camera as if it's the sound of a picture being taken, when it's just a still taken from video, or from a digital camera. You all know what I'm talking about "click, zeeee"
we need to bring back to San Francisco and make it the new Hollywood for film. The weather is better than LA, less trafffic, gorgeous views, and the hills, those hills are a killer but you can see the entire bay area!
It's amazing to look at back in 1906 what bothers me though is there so many buildings that are erected who constructed those awesome buildings it wasn't the people back in 1906 think about it
And you studied history and engineering WHERE??? Geez, people in the 19th century weren't living in caves. They had all sorts of heavy construction equipment like excavators, cranes, tractors, even drills - powered by *steam.* Who the fck do you think built stuff like the transcontinental railroad, oceangoing ships, the Eiffel Tower, and all those other big projects? Hogwarts grads?
Austin Power: Never! It was filmed in B&W and should remain that way. Leave the disastrous abomination of colorization to TCM - though TCM should be hanged and quartered for it.
A dash cam 100 and some years before its time! And even though the transportation has changed, the drivers haven't changed! Reckless driving and relentless boy racers almost running pedestrians over! And no rules of the road to disobey!
@@valentinius62 .... Trax don't explain anything that I saw unless the vibration of the tracks lifted up some bricks I grew up in San Francisco I spent a lot of time on trolleys and streetcars I had my own bus pass and it's possible that the vibration could have looked at those bricks but it looks so unnerving and so strange LOL
Geez the film is almost 120 years old and very grainy. Look for some still photos of the city. The tracks are there. Nobody's trying to hide some, uh, "conspiracy".
Stop watching Fox News and visit yourself. You will see like every city there are good parts and bad parts. Was just there, spent a full day walking all over the city and saw very little of what you describe.
@@williamzavlaris4054 Cut the cable 3 yrs ago. I visited SF 15 yrs ago. I want to remember it as I saw it. I would not go back now. It was the jewel of the nation when When Hitch made Vertigo , but that was a Long Long Time Ago in a City Far Away.
@@williamzavlaris4054 I am a native San Franciscan, The city is a toilet overrun now. It is clear to anyone who has lived in the city for more than 20‐25 years that it has been destroyed by the Radical Marxist Leftist politicians that now Lord over the city as if modern day Lord of the Flies. Their radical policies of pampering illegal aliens and drug cartel members, emptying prisons to let criminals roam the streets, and treating street vagrants as if they are untouchable Sacred cows have turned San Francisco citizens into hostages in their own city.
@@chrysopylaedesign I am a 70 year old native of S.F. and have heard the same cry too many times to count from the beatnik invasion of the 50's, through the hippies of the 60's, the gays of the 70's and the dot com invasion of the 80's. Herb Caen said the city was at its best in the 30's while historical records lament the rebuilt city after 1906 which many accounts said was nowhere near as good as before the quake. I too loved and think of S.F. during the Vertigo Era (one of my favorite movies) but vividly remember old timers at that time saying that the WWII invasion of 10 years before ruined the city. This is not to downplay the issues such as homelessness which unfortunately is an American problem not unique to S.F.
@@williamzavlaris4054 Thanks for your reply…. my original comment was trying to point out how demonstrably bad it is now as apart from past time periods were there was, as always, complaints. The difference now is that the political marxist leftist cabal that is governing San Francisco is actively promoting policies that are doing demonstrable damage to SF & San Franciscans. All those past changes to SF were the result of "natural" demographic changes or events of history & time. The radical marxist leftist SF politicians are actively inviting in illegal aliens & drug cartel members (& protecting them), and releasing prisoners from jail (I was threatened w/ a knife just recently, something that has never happened to me in SF). These are unequivocally bad policies that are being driven by, at many times, an anti-American Marxist Leftist policy, agree with me or not, This is clear for all to see now.
The same 5-6 cars continuously circling the tram. So as project the feeling that at the time San Francisco was a modernised city. Ha ha Propagangda by the media from day dot
Who else finds the research just as fascinating as the film
This film is priceless. My Papa, who was born in S.F. In 1885, possibly walked down Market St. on the day that film was made. He walked everywhere. Interesting to see Market St. through his eyes.
so ur born like 1915?
she probably died by the time u posted that comment
@@KappaClaus How rude.
@@KappaClaus 😂😂😂😂😂
DeeDee Ross priceless is the only word♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I just remembered that my great-grandfather was the president of the Market Street Railway, which ran these streetcars - but that was a few years later, around 1910-1915.
absolutely a treasure from the past. May San Francisco stay as beautiful as it is today. 2015. my son and his wife live there. I have visited many times and love it. Awesome
After the earthquake, the Miles Brothers re-shot Market Street with all the ruins. This film was recently found as well.
Can't believe how many people were on Market Street back then. That place was packed.
Just occasionally, the world serves us notice that we are here only by its good graces. Life as we know it can change quickly, because of a new virus, or an earthquake, or a hurricane. When I watch this footage, my appreciation for life is renewed. Each day is a blessing. We are not guaranteed anything on this Earth. May we all cherish the tine we are given, and those we share it with.
This is as close to a time machine as we may ever come.
Essentially what we are seeing is what existed on that day in 1906, exactly as our own eyes would have seen it. Not a drawing or written account, but a precise image of what existed.
Because we live in the “eternal now” the past and future are as inaccessible as a distant galaxy. But
with all the film that exists today, people 100 years from now, just from news broadcasts alone, will know every intimate detail of our lives. Nothing will have to be left to guess work.
Very indebted to David for his unflagging efforts! Thanks to him! Great 60 Minutes segment. Anyone interested in Silent Films made in the Bay Area should visit the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Niles (Fremont).
Fantastic story and fascinating history. There was no measurable rainfall between April 1, 1906 and April 22, 1906. How standing puddles of water were still there two weeks after the last rainfall is puzzling. The Miles Brothers said it was filmed "one week before" the earthquake, which would fix it around April 11, and evidence strongly suggests it was a Saturday (since businesses were open and kids were not on Easter vacation from school until the week of April 17), which would be April 8 not April 15.
It's been pinned down to four days before the quake. And remember SF had municipal water supplies so the puddles could be from drains, hydrants, street-cleaners, or any similar sources.
I love how the license plates simply consisted of 4 numbers.
I wonder who got the first 5 digit number plate
@@AlonsoRules the person must felt like a real boss
Wow !!! Thank You for this gift...What an incredible journey to unearth the story behind this footage...
I love this film. Morley Safer, 60 Minutes, SF 1906. Amazing.
You will never know how much I appreciate this . Thank you so much.👌
Congratulation for the research. It is wonderful and very important to see people care the past in beautiful B&W films. From Rio, Brazil.
It finally stirred me about how this all is a LITERAL window to our past
Seeing horse and carriage, trolleys, cars and bicycle's all together on a street is such a different sight!
*Bravo David,* your intuitive desire for a clarity of a time gone by, gives us splendid visual and yet a heartfelt sadness, none with us today, and some left way early.
That hard to define essence one gets when viewing actual subjects and events of the past, (like footage of the Titanic), can be an oddly familiar yet a gray sad feeling...
A mixed emotions in the now.
Wonder what that is ...?
Imagine that, no road rules and there wasn't chaos.
1974dormouse but it was
You don't need hats now with all those skyscrapers.
Mesmerizing. ~Thank you!
when cameras in 1906 had better quality than the ones in 2006
such an original comment
An interesting effort to research and connect the film to a time frame...which, if not definitive, is very convincing.
The use of projector sound effects, I think, is to indicate to the average 60 Minutes viewer that were looking at film. Many older people will key into the sound and even younger people, who have no or very little knowledge of movie and still film procedures will "get" the idea that they're not looking at images from the digital age. Many people have no idea how camera images are recorded in either the previous film era or our present age.
..."indicate to the average viewer that were looking at".. WHAT FILM.??
This is wonderful.
When he said the Video Started Around 8th Street, I got on Google Maps and Looked up the Hotel Whitcomb only place I've stayed at in SF. AND 8th Street and Market was The Intersection. Mind blown walked those side walks Back to the Whitcomb on the Left
Great work guys ...
San Francisco population in 1870 approximately 140,000. In 1900 approx. 340,000. This is all at a time when virtually the entire population was clustered around the Market Street downtown area (east of Van Ness & just south of Market), a very concentrated 3-4 sq. mile area. A side note, S.F. 1846 pop. approx. 200..... (6 yrs. later) 1852 approx. 36,000. In a little over 40 years, San Francisco went from a Frontier, Wild West small Outpost w/ a pop. of 200 to the 8th largest American city in 1890 with a population of almost 300,000.
SF was a massively wealthy city, in large part due to the gold rush and Comstock Lode.
@@user-eb5cb6ud1p SF had Massive sea-going value, an unmatched natural bay, natural resources & beauty that would attract millions to the Edge of the N. American continent. Something that the Spanish & Mexicans could never appreciate; to their lose. This is something that is being repeated again in my hometown SF, by Know-Nothing Politicians who wield around their authority like a child waiving around their father's gun.
I wish I could visit you market road San Francisco one day .. love from Pakistan 🇵🇰 ❤️
Probably horseshit, fuel and trash everywhere
@ Hans Blix Then in that case, he can save his $$ and he can stay home and see the same thing now can't he??
Great story Morley Safer!
Mr. Lough doesn't have to be so rude.But, I will add that the water may have been there because the city washed down the streets, especially after the pandemics of the 1890's.
I thought it was well known that the film dated to April 1906! From what I've read it was only 4 days before it happened. And how come they don't talk about the SECOND FILM that was done along the same line showing Market after the destruction?
This one is more famous and is of higher quality despite, ironically, being the older of the two. Plus, they do mention it and show footage at 9:53
The worlds longest camera dolly. This camera operator certainly had genius. Wow.
@VideosTester Yeah I'm annoyed every day when tv shows/ commercials play the sound effect of a battery powered film advancer for a camera as if it's the sound of a picture being taken, when it's just a still taken from video, or from a digital camera.
@VideosTester Yeah I'm annoyed every day when tv shows/ commercials play the sound effect of a battery powered film advancer for a camera as if it's the sound of a picture being taken, when it's just a still taken from video, or from a digital camera. You all know what I'm talking about "click, zeeee"
496 people died in the city while over 2,000 in outlying areas.
we need to bring back to San Francisco and make it the new Hollywood for film. The weather is better than LA, less trafffic, gorgeous views, and the hills, those hills are a killer but you can see the entire bay area!
It was processed just before the Quake in New York City so it survived.
I love it . such a beautiful little film ~420
Plot twist, the reporter was one of the newsies in the vintage film
dommage que vous n'avez pas permit de mettre en français avec youtube
dashcam - 1906 style
Amazing.
Wow! Thank you.
Recently Color and Sound was added.
the old street looks so much better
everything back then looks better
It's amazing to look at back in 1906 what bothers me though is there so many buildings that are erected who constructed those awesome buildings it wasn't the people back in 1906 think about it
And you studied history and engineering WHERE???
Geez, people in the 19th century weren't living in caves. They had all sorts of heavy construction equipment like excavators, cranes, tractors, even drills - powered by *steam.* Who the fck do you think built stuff like the transcontinental railroad, oceangoing ships, the Eiffel Tower, and all those other big projects? Hogwarts grads?
Awesome
and probably a sore arm after hand cranking the camera for the three mile trip...
Yup. The poor Miles Brother had to rely on a helpful hand for sex that night!
The date the date tha this was uploaded was 21 years after the Loma Preita Quake I was in that one!
Fascinating time capsule..some of only flat ground in a up down city.. Market Street Derby Commandos...
Most of the buildings (save a few) were obliterated by the 1906 earthquake just days later.
Yes, that point was made clearly in the video.
The Barbary Coast days!
Please in color...?
Austin Power: Never! It was filmed in B&W and should remain that way. Leave the disastrous abomination of colorization to TCM - though TCM should be hanged and quartered for it.
Jon Levi channel 👀
A dash cam 100 and some years before its time! And even though the transportation has changed, the drivers haven't changed! Reckless driving and relentless boy racers almost running pedestrians over! And no rules of the road to disobey!
Trivia: Andy Rooney and Mike Wallace were two of the paper boys in the 1906-film. 8-)
Noooooooooooooo????(
Fuck yeah, libraries!
1:50 streetcar with no tracks
I thought the same thing and went back a few times and I believe you can just make out the tracks?
@@valentinius62 .... Trax don't explain anything that I saw unless the vibration of the tracks lifted up some bricks I grew up in San Francisco I spent a lot of time on trolleys and streetcars I had my own bus pass and it's possible that the vibration could have looked at those bricks but it looks so unnerving and so strange LOL
Geez the film is almost 120 years old and very grainy. Look for some still photos of the city. The tracks are there. Nobody's trying to hide some, uh, "conspiracy".
Sounds of Cars Trolley Bells and other sounds.
The sound's dubbed. Sound-on-film wasn't available in 1906.
PULL IT UP
THE FILM OF 1906 IS A MYSTERY WHO MADE IT AND WHY AND WHEN ITS A FANTASTIC LOOK AT SAN FRANCISCO TO MAKE THE STREETS LOOK MORE LIVELY
Here’s the digitally restored version
ruclips.net/video/sHkc83XA2dY/видео.html
a decent salary $400 a year i can't live on 1400 a month in 2019 my how things change
! Приношу конечно же извинения , но какой же мерзкий старческий голос у ведущего этой программы про лживый фильм 1906 года про Маркет стрит !
Looks set up
Not a radical democrat America hater in the bunch
Don't know much about US history I see. This was the era of the Progressive and Socialist parties.
The city was once a jewel of the country . Now it is the toilet of the country.
Stop watching Fox News and visit yourself. You will see like every city there are good parts and bad parts. Was just there, spent a full day walking all over the city and saw very little of what you describe.
@@williamzavlaris4054 Cut the cable 3 yrs ago. I visited SF 15 yrs ago. I want to remember it as I saw it. I would not go back now. It was the jewel of the nation when When Hitch made Vertigo , but that was a Long Long Time Ago in a City Far Away.
@@williamzavlaris4054 I am a native San Franciscan, The city is a toilet overrun now. It is clear to anyone who has lived in the city for more than 20‐25 years that it has been destroyed by the Radical Marxist Leftist politicians that now Lord over the city as if modern day Lord of the Flies. Their radical policies of pampering illegal aliens and drug cartel members, emptying prisons to let criminals roam the streets, and treating street vagrants as if they are untouchable Sacred cows have turned San Francisco citizens into hostages in their own city.
@@chrysopylaedesign I am a 70 year old native of S.F. and have heard the same cry too many times to count from the beatnik invasion of the 50's, through the hippies of the 60's, the gays of the 70's and the dot com invasion of the 80's. Herb Caen said the city was at its best in the 30's while historical records lament the rebuilt city after 1906 which many accounts said was nowhere near as good as before the quake. I too loved and think of S.F. during the Vertigo Era (one of my favorite movies) but vividly remember old timers at that time saying that the WWII invasion of 10 years before ruined the city. This is not to downplay the issues such as homelessness which unfortunately is an American problem not unique to S.F.
@@williamzavlaris4054 Thanks for your reply…. my original comment was trying to point out how demonstrably bad it is now as apart from past time periods were there was, as always, complaints. The difference now is that the political marxist leftist cabal that is governing San Francisco is actively promoting policies that are doing demonstrable damage to SF & San Franciscans. All those past changes to SF were the result of "natural" demographic changes or events of history & time. The radical marxist leftist SF politicians are actively inviting in illegal aliens & drug cartel members (& protecting them), and releasing prisoners from jail (I was threatened w/ a knife just recently, something that has never happened to me in SF). These are unequivocally bad policies that are being driven by, at many times, an anti-American Marxist Leftist policy, agree with me or not, This is clear for all to see now.
The same 5-6 cars continuously circling the tram. So as project the feeling that at the time San Francisco was a modernised city.
Ha ha Propagangda by the media from day dot