Comments on: San Francisco on film: Days before the 1906 Quake
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- This is so fascinating to watch! It is a real slice of history and thank God it was preserved. I love this little film; and, how does one get a copy of it to own? Great work and thanks to those who did preserve this! The world needs more of this kind of story! Kudos to those who preserved, worked on and brought us this timeless treasure. Thanks CBS and 60 Minutes.
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- Gee that is what sixth and Market looks like without drug Dealers.This was an amazing film to watch and if you live in San Francisco.Imagine how many weren't alive a week later.The Ferry building wasn't blocked by a FREEWAY.Imagine building that concrete monster now.The voters wanted to retrofit the damn ugly freeway built in the 50s blocking the Ferry building after the 1989 Earthquake.Damn happy the SUPES SUPERSEDED this one.
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- This film is wonderful. I've watched it at least five times and keep finding little things I missed - the street sweeper, the police officers, the nuns, the dog running in front of the horse-drawn carriage near the end. Thank you, Mr Prelinger, Mr Kiehn, Morley Safer and 60 Minutes for allowing your viewers to have a wonderful trip back in time.
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- It's like being transported back to another era - a totally fascinating thing - for me anyway! Gets me thinking of how limited our understanding and knowledge of history are, how quickly things change and how ignorant of the changes we are. I've always considered how we human beings are dropped into history, with little knowledge of what went before us and totally ignorant of the future. I was thinking of all these lives in this little film - who were they? What were they like? What were they doing on this day? This would have been a time my grandparents would have lived in. Interesting. The biggest thought is of how the Lord knows all these questions of mine and knew all these people in detail, just as He knows us now. Amazing to think about the eternity of God - how He was there when this was shot, as well as ages before. Time and history are always fascinating.
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- I loved the story you did on the old film on San Fan . Ca. I think the person who did the filming was very smart to put the camera on the front of the cable car to get a feeling of what the town and the time was like. Its a great piece of history. History is how we learn on what to do now and in the future. So I loved this story we need more of this kind of stories on 60 min.
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- Thank you for the wonderful segment on this "Trip Down Market Street". My paternal grandparents were a part of that era in the City and I can't help but wonder if one of them was not there on Market Street that day as they lived and worked there then. My father was born in the City in April the following year.
The picture you showed at the end of the film of the city in flames reminded me of my maternal grandmother's recollection of that fateful scene. My grandmother was raised in the East Bay. Her father was a conductor on the ferryboats to the City. She told me that the fire was so bright that you could read a newspaper from it's light at night in Oakland.
Special thanks to the man who dug up all the info on this film and has given it a real time and date. - Reply to this comment
- Is it possible to find out what the music is that accompanies the film footage? It adds a lot to the viewing and is a vast improvement over watching the original silent film. Thanks to anyone who can provide this information.
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- Wonderful film. The ending comment, however, "just a computer and the Internet". What happened to the library? I'm a former librarian who got tired of not getting respect for the research I was able to do. Our history is preserved in libraries, archives, museums. It's the way we can answer "How do you know what happened? How do you know what you know?" Anyone with an economic interest can write "history" on the internet. Libraries hold the real deal and they keep us honest.
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- Excellent foootage. Otstanding
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- YAY for libraries and people who still know how to use them! Great mystery solving. Fascinating story, thank you!
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