Videos from the Library of Congress
Posted on November 16th, 2010 by GD
Updated Dec. 6, 2010
The Library of Congress now has a video channel on YouTube, says ResearchBuzz.
Here’s a selection titled Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916. What’s striking is the silence. The viewer has to fill in the blanks.
Research by film historian David Kiehn dates the making of the film A Trip Down Market Street to a few days before the great San Francisco earthquake and fire (April 18, 1906).
Sources
. ResearchBuzz, circa Nov. 16, 2010.
. Edward Guthmann, Historian David Kiehn Traces Old Bay Area Films, San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 6, 2010 (published in hard copy as “Detective Work Tracks Earliest Bay Area Films”).
