This five-minute film edits together silent footage of two tramcar journeys along San Francisco's Market Street, the first in 1905 (the year before the earthquake), the second in 1906:
Sunday 23 March 2008
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I waste my life so you don't have to
3 comments:
Awful lot of people liked to risk life and limb dogging amongst the traffic.
Yes indeed. How decorous Leith Walk seems in comparison. "Thou hast conquered, O pale Health & Safety! The streets have grown grey from thy breath…"
(Am assuming "dogging" was a misprint for "dodging". If not, I need new glasses.)
Freudian slip, however it has led to some seriously good ideas regarding new uses for Leith walk.
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