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Film, VideoScenes in San Francisco. [No. 2]
Scenes of San Francisco | Title in Biograph bulletins 1896-1908: San Francisco | 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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ArticleSan Francisco earthquake and fire, April 18, 1906 Shows the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, and the devastation resulting from the subsequent three-day fire. The earthquake struck at 5:12 a.m. San Francisco, with thousands of unreinforced brick buildings, and closely-spaced wooden Victorian dwellings, was poorly prepared for a major fire. The scenes in the film are preceded by interior titles, many of which are sensationalized. One scene...
- Date: 1906
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Film, VideoExploded gas tanks, U.S. Mint, Emporium and Spreckels Bld'g
Exploded gas tanks, U.S. Mint, Emporium and Spreckels Building The camera, placed on the east side of 4th Street near Natoma Street, one and two-thirds blocks south of Market Street, pans a full 240 degrees, from southwest to southeast. The pan begins in the southwest, viewing two 550,000 cubic foot, 45' diameter frames of gas tanks of the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company at 5th and Folsom streets. The dome of the...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1906
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Film, VideoThe San Francisco disaster
Formerly titled: Unidentified Staples & Charles. No. 1, San Francisco after the earthquake and fire of 1906 | Title in Lubin catalog 1907: San Francisco earthquake | Unidentified Staples & Charles. No. 1, San Francisco after the earthquake and fire of 1906 | San Francisco earthquake 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, including a panorama and scene in a refugee camp. Note that the locations provided in the interior titles are incorrect for segments 1, 3, and 4. "Panorama of City Hall from Top of U.S. Mint." This right-to-left (north-to-northwest) panorama...- Contributor: Frawley, Jack - S. Lubin (Firm : Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1906
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Film, VideoScenes in San Francisco. [No. 1]
Scenes of San Francisco | Title in Biograph bulletins 1896-1908: San Francisco | 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