A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1906)
Genre : Documentary, History
Runtime : 12M
Director : Harry Miles
Synopsis
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.
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Daisy and her husband both go in for a face-pulling contest, but when the big day comes she is unable to attend the competition, and her husband wins instead. When the next opportunity comes around, she is determined to win -- but gets a little over-enthusiastic on the way to the contest and finds herself in trouble! She is most ungrateful for her rescue; fate, however, catches up with her that night…
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Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.
A tribute to Stan Brakhage's pet dog Sirius, whose decompostion was recorded over 6 months after he had died.
A 1941 film encouraging people to seek treatment if they had, or might have had, syphilis.
