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Film, VideoScenes in San Francisco. [No. 1]
Scenes of San Francisco | Title in Biograph bulletins 1896-1908: San Francisco Views and pans among the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire. A scene-by-scene description of the film: [Frame: 0100] The camera, positioned at the southwest corner of Mission and 5th streets, makes a hurried and jerky pan from the east side of 5th Street eastward to the south side of Mission Street. At the start of the pan, the ruined Lincoln...- Contributor: Gove, Otis M. (Otis Meader) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1906
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Film, VideoScenes in San Francisco. [No. 2]
Scenes of San Francisco | Title in Biograph bulletins 1896-1908: San Francisco Panoramas filmed in the ruins of downtown San Francisco and outlying refugee camps following the 1906 earthquake and fire. A scene-by-scene description of the film: [Frame: 0102] Begins with a long, pan of downtown ruins viewed from Natoma Street between 4th and 3rd streets. The pan is from left to right (west to northeast). Buildings of interest: The old San Francisco Mint, with classic...- Contributor: Gove, Otis M. (Otis Meader) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1906
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Film, VideoA trip to Berkeley, Cal
Trip to Berkeley, California | Variant title from AFI catalog: Panorama view, streets of Berkeley, Cal Shot from a moving streetcar, this film shows portions of north Berkeley and the adjacent University of California campus, in 1906. The Oakland and Berkeley Rapid Transit Company began operating in 1891 and was a major factor in the development of Berkeley. The streetcar route shown is most of the final portion of the #4 line, built in 1901, originating in downtown Oakland. The...- Contributor: Gove, Otis M. (Otis Meader) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1906