From the email I got about it:
Amazing old video of San Francisco. This film was "lost" for many years. It was the first 35 mm film ever. It was taken by camera mounted on the front of a cable car. Look at the ladies dresses and the old cars alsoThe amount of automobiles is staggering for 1906. The clock tower at the end of Market Street at the Embarcadero wharf is still there ( the Ferry Building ). This film, originally thought to be from 1905 until David Kiehn with the Niles CA Essanay Silent Film Museum figured out exactly when it was shot. From New York trade papers announcing the film showing to the wet streets from recent heavy rainfall & shadows indicating time of year & actual weather and conditions on historical record, even when the cars were registered (he even knows who owned them and when the plates were issued!).. It was filmed only four days before the quake and shipped by train to NY for processing. Amazing but true.
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