A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1906)

A Trip Down Market Street is a 13minute actuality film recorded by placing a movie camera on the front of a cable car as it travels down San Franciscos 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