A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire Trailer (1906)

21 April 1906 Factual 12 mins

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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1906 Trip Down Market Street Trailer

A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire Trailer

International Releases Dates

United States 21 April 1906

Production Companies

Miles Brothers

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SUMMARY This film shot from the front window of a moving Market Street cable car is a rare record of San Francisco's principal thoroughfare and downtown ...

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