Edison Newsreels: San Francisco Earthquake aftermath (1906)
1906 · Ephemeral film · 5 min
Synopsis
Edison newsreel of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake's aftermath: buildings falling, the injured carried away, troops marching along Van Ness Avenue with relief supplies, and panoramas of the destruction.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 5 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- 2349A_Edison_Newsreels_San_Francisco_Earthquake_aftermath
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · Only a fire.. keep moving. · Spuzz · 2012-09-07
Fairly faint footage that features the aftermath of the quake and fire in San Fransisco in 1906. Fairly surreal of course is that this film is over 100 years old, and here I am, watching it now! Anyways, a heck of a lot doessnt really happen in this, just a lot of people wandering around. What's left of the buildings looks eerily like Ground Zero in 2001.