What you are viewing is one of the oldest known videos to exist and still work in human history. I saw this video on CBS 60 Minutes a few months back and I just remembered how incredible it was. The video, shot in 1906 from the front of cable car, is like stepping into another world (specifically Market Street in San Francisco, California). Eerily enough San Francisco was devastated by an earthquake just days after this was filmed. Note the chaos in the streets as there were no traffic signs/lights to dictate the rules of the road. A quick search discovered the first traffic light would not be installed in the U.S. until 1914.
If you look at the related videos on YouTube there are many more versions that include music montages and footage from after the 1906 quake.
You can see the original airing of this piece on the CBS 60 Minutes website here.
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