By MICHAEL GOI | AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER
In every country of the world, there are movies and documentaries that define who we are and what we believe in, and they become a time capsule of our culture.
There is a fascinating piece of film making the rounds on the Internet, a view from a streetcar on Market Street in San Francisco in 1905, one year before the earthquake forever changed the landscape.... As you watch this single-camera traveling view of everyday life, it’s easy to become drawn to individual people on the street, curious about their stories — the man walking with his young son through the maze of streetcars, the car filled with five portly men passing a much more upscale car with a lone driver, the man with the butcher’s apron dashing across the street in front of the camera, the boys dangerously holding onto the back of a car while running behind it. You get a real sense of what life felt like at that time....