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San Francisco before the great fire: rare, public domain 1906 video

Video archivist extraordinaire Rick Prelinger sez, “A TRIP DOWN MARKET STREET BEFORE THE FIRE is that charismatic archival film made by San Francisco’s Miles Bros. several days before the April 18, 1906 quake/fire. Millions of people have seen the Air music video (made from a visually degraded version of the film), but until now nobody’s had access to a editable DV file. Here it is (warning: 2.3GB). Please make of it what you will, and consider uploading your work to Internet Archive!”

Miles BrothersTrip Down Market Street Before the Fire, A (DV25 version) (1906/04/15)

(Thanks, footage, via Submitterator!)

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