Posted on 03/04/2018 5:47:59 PM PST by nickcarraway
A newspaper says a long-lost film reel with nine minutes of footage capturing San Francisco two weeks after the deadly 1906 earthquake surfaced at a flea market in the city.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday that the rare find portrays the city's post-quake devastation, including City Hall with its dome nearly destroyed.
The so called "great quake" and ensuing fire on April 18, 1906 killed thousands.
The newspaper says the nitrate film reel was shot by early filmmakers the Miles Brothers. The footage is a bookend to their most famous work ``A Trip Down Market Street,'' a 13-minute silent film shot from a cable car days before the earthquake.
Sam Rockwell Takes Home Best Supporting Actor Oscar The public will be able to view the film April 14 at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont.
Thanks for the PING and interesting personal story.
Wait til the grid goes down for 6-12 hours
i fixed it for you
I wonder if this isn’t the same historian that wrote a very good book on the life of Billy the Kid” I read it as a boy and was impressed with how he was able to meld history with a novelist’s eye. I always remembered the ending of his tale which had a eerie, almost mystical, feel to it.
As an adult I went to Ft. Sumner to participate in a sports car race at the old Army Air Base of UFO fame. One of the highlights of my trip was a visit to the cemetery of OLd Ft. Summner to see the Kid’s grave and relive that book’s ending.
LOL! Or the day the EBT cards drop.
There are three other titles listed in the front of this one; he’s got a nice wikipedia page, shows more titles, including his most famous work, “A Night To Remember” about the sinking of the Titanic. Lord lived until 2002, and actually was born in 1917, that is, the end year covered in this book “The Good Years”. The relative who had this was over 20 years older than Lord.
“The Saga of Billy the Kid” was written by one Walter Noble Burns, perhaps it was that one?
Cantinflas... wow, never heard of him, nor do his photos ring a bell, at all. Ya got me stumped.
That account of the “fallen angel” did sound familiar though, must have read about it some while ago. :^)
I’ve often wondered what would happen if the volcano (Mexico City was built in its crater) turned out to not be extinct...
A Trip Down Market Street, 1906
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YRbMMqj0qw
LOL!
Probably that guy instead. All Walters run deep in my brain these days.
Probably that guy instead. All Walters run deep in my brain these days.
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