Wikisource:WikiProject Film/Drafts/Archives/San Francisco Earthquake & Fire: April 18, 1906
User: M-le-mot-dit
File: San Francisco earthquake and fire, April 18, 1906.webm
Author: unknown
Publisher: unknown
Year: 1906
PD: PD/US
Note: American short black-and-white documentary silent film. The film documents the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Selected for the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Cat: Documentary film, Silent film
00:18
SAN FRANCISCO
EARTHQUAKE & FIRE
April 18, 1906
00:24
The first scenes that met the eye on landing.
00:41
There were ruins on every hand.
00:59
Every fireman worked to save the residential districts—and here ruins burned unchecked.
02:03
Walls were ordered razed by the authorities
03:42
St Patrick's Church,
Mission Street.
04:25
At meal times, when there was food to be had, troubles were banished. The street served as both kitchen and diningroom.
05:47
Market and Powell Streets that memorable April of 1906.
05:54-06:12
| TREASURE SAN FRANCISCO |
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS UNINJURED FROM FIRE OR WATER |
OFFICE OF THE WESTERN NATIONAL BANK. |
06:16
Soldiers guarded the banks. They shot, to kill, at looters.
06:29
Man's faithful friend, the horse, worked tirelessly. There was no water, except what was brought to him by ferryboat.
06:54
Odd looking "automobiles" were still a luxury, and Old Dobbin was supreme.
07:44
First refugees were in too much haste, even to take their effects.
08:05
Women wore their Easter bonnets. Chinamen wore their queus.
08:28
Looking down Market Street. The first trolley.
09:30
First ferryboats to land at Oakland, were loaded to capacity, with refugees.
10:25
Arrival of
Refugees at Oakland
11:31
San Franciscans have claimed that this is how Oakland got her start—but they're wrong.
12:23
The END