The accompanying music is somewhat haunting and poignant, if you have a "background music" preference, perhaps you might open a new tab and click on the youtube of your preferred artist?
A film camera was attached to the front of a trolley...Lots of pedestrians and horse-drawn carts, frequent cars...the occasional puff of smoke indicates that some cars are steam-powered...cars seemed to travel at the speed of a person jogging...
Rider on horseback, treated by passersby as completely normal, at 6:03
At 6:44 pedestrians are shown clinging to the rear of cars in order to help them "get up the hill"
Bicycles seen at 2:33, 3:18, 4:47, 5:25, 5:35, 9:22
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This was an highly transitional time. Cars had just recently been invented (but were expensive), horses were the mature technology that was widely well-understood. Bicycles were booming since 1890...
Shortly after this was filmed, San Francisco suffered a devastating and historic earthquake. There was a subsequent fire that destroyed almost as much as the earthquake...a few years later, WW-One changed everything...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEvB_ZIWtAg&feature=youtu.be
A film camera was attached to the front of a trolley...Lots of pedestrians and horse-drawn carts, frequent cars...the occasional puff of smoke indicates that some cars are steam-powered...cars seemed to travel at the speed of a person jogging...
Rider on horseback, treated by passersby as completely normal, at 6:03
At 6:44 pedestrians are shown clinging to the rear of cars in order to help them "get up the hill"
Bicycles seen at 2:33, 3:18, 4:47, 5:25, 5:35, 9:22
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This was an highly transitional time. Cars had just recently been invented (but were expensive), horses were the mature technology that was widely well-understood. Bicycles were booming since 1890...
Shortly after this was filmed, San Francisco suffered a devastating and historic earthquake. There was a subsequent fire that destroyed almost as much as the earthquake...a few years later, WW-One changed everything...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEvB_ZIWtAg&feature=youtu.be