Recently discovered footage of San Francisco in the wake of the destructive 1906 earthquake will soon be available to the public. The 9-minute recording was likely shot by The Miles Brothers, San Francisco’s first movie company, one or two weeks after the 7.9-magnitude quake rocked the city. It traces the route featured in the 13-minute film “A Trip Down Market Street,” that was taken by the same company a few days before the quake. The two films offer a dramatic before-and-after contrast:

Source: Huffington Post June 05, 2018 07:52 UTC