Author: Christina Ayele Djossa / Source: Atlas Obscura
Flea markets are wonderful places to find little oddities and quirky trinkets, but the old can of footage antique photographic equipment dealer David Silver bought at the Alemany Flea Market in San Francisco turned out to be lost history.
After making the purchase he held the film up to the sun and peered at the footage. “And I’ve seen so many clips of post-earthquake San Francisco. I kept looking at these frames and thinking I’d never seen them before,” Silver told NPR’s All Things Considered.
David Silver posted his discovery last year on a California history Facebook page run by Nick Wright. When Nick’s brother Jason Wright saw the post, he bought the film from Silver. There was something more to the footage, Jason Wright suspected, and the native Californian was going to find out.
Jason, a historian and photography dealer who now lives in the U.K., worked with David Kiehn, a historian at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, to identify the film’s contents. Kiehn said in an email that digitized the 8,655 frames—by photographing each one with a digital camera—then cleaned up the images. What the duo discovered was…
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