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A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire

A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 21, 1906

Runtime

0h 12m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

61%

Original Title

A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire

Director

Harry Miles

Description

A Trip Down Market Street is a 13-minute actuality film recorded by placing a movie camera on the front of a cable car as it travels down San Francisco’s Market Street. A virtual time capsule from over 100 years ago, the film shows many details of daily life in a major American city, including the transportation, fashions and architecture of the era. The film begins at 8th Street and continues eastward to the cable car turntable, at The Embarcadero, in front of the San Francisco Ferry Building. It was produced by the four Miles brothers: Harry, Herbert, Earle and Joe. Harry J. Miles cranked the Bell & Howell camera during the filming.