A film taken from a streetcar moving down San Francisco's Market Street in 1906, only four days before the Great Earthquake. According to flixxy the film was originally thought to be from 1905 until David Kiehn with the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum figured out when it was shot... get this... from proof including: (1) New York trade papers announcing the film-showing, (2) the wet streets from recent heavy rainfall plus shadows (indicating the time of year) compared to actual weather and conditions on the historical record, and (3) when the cars that being driven were registered (he even knows who owns them and when the plates were issued).
The soundtrack to this is La Femme D'Argent, from the Moon Safari album by Air. You may remember them from an earlier post of mine.
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