Early Motion Pictures

Item 3 of 6

[Unidentified Staples & Charles. No. 1, San Francisco after the earthquake and fire of 1906]

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[United States : s.n., 1906?]

NOTES

Duration: 8:00 at 15 fps.

Photographed: late April, 1906. Location: various locations in and near downtown San Francisco, California.

This film is made up of five panoramas, four wide and one close-up, of the ruins of downtown San Francisco shortly after the 1906 disaster, plus a panorama and scene in a nearby refugee camp. Original intertitles precede each change of scene, but the locations provided are incorrect for three of the five views. The state of the ruins and camp suggest a date in late April, 1906. The absence of streetcar tracks in the "Grand Avenue" panorama dates that segment to before May 1, 1906.

Received: 6/93 from LC film lab; ref print; preservation; AFI/Staples (Robert) & Charles (Barbara) Collection.

SUBJECTS
Earthquakes--California--San Francisco.
Fires--California--San Francisco.
Buildings--Earthquake effects.
Disaster relief--California--San Francisco.
Emergency housing--California--San Francisco.
Emergency mass feeding--California--San Francisco.
San Francisco (Calif.)--History.
Shorts.
Actualities.

MEDIUM
1 reel (450 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. ref print.

CALL NUMBER
ncn 000773