A Trip Down Market Street (1906)

[alivemagdolene]

YOU.

YES, YOU.

STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING!

#1. CLICK ON THIS VIDEO.

#2. CLICK THE RESOLUTION ICON (LITTLE THING THAT LOOKS LIKE A FLOWER BETWEEN THE WORD BUBBLE ICON AND THE LITTLE CLOCK ICON ON THE LOWER RIGHT) AND CLICK THE RESOLUTION UP TO AT LEAST 720, IF YOU CAN, 1080. YOU MIGHT HAVE TO HIT PAUSE WHILE THE LITTLE WHEEL STOPS SPINNING (

Comments

[daisydumont]

I love the way people and horse-drawn carriages cavalierly (heh, you see what I did thar?) pass directly in front of streetcars and autos? Wowzer. That really is incredible. Most old films I've seen are jerky from being shown at the wrong speed (or something). Thanks for this!

[alivemagdolene]

I'm so glad you liked it! It blew my mind. I laughed since the top YouTube comment is something like "Let's play 'count how many narrowly missed accidents you see'!" which... yeah. I also like how people didn't treat cars with any kind of caution, as they didn't know yet that they could be hit/run over (presumably that innovation came later).