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OriginalA Trip Down Market Street, a 1906 film of San Francisco before the earthquake and fire
Reason
the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress
Articles in which this image appears
A Trip Down Market Street
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History
Creator
Miles Brothers
Though I do think it's a bit of a shame that so much additional digital compression is added to archival digital transfers of analogue film stock. Treated as a series of stills this would not be acceptable. Much larger file sizes and higher resolutions would be preferable for any analogue to digital transfer, whatever the perceived quality or age of the original. Wolftick (talk) 16:08, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
There is DVD quality version (Quicktime, 2.3 GB) on IA. It would interesting to make a free codec version out of that. I have neither the processing power not the bandwidth necessary for that. Regards, Yann (talk) 18:11, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I downloaded the 2.3GB version and it is a lot better: File:Market street comparison.jpg. It seems to me to be a bit troubling promoting the current version when they is a substantially better free version easily available for want of transcoding. I think I can transcode and upload it myself but it would take some time. If anyone with more bandwidth, computing power and expertise wants to step into the breach feel free. Wolftick (talk) 20:57, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Wolftick: I think you could simply upload over this one. If it is the same film, I don't see an issue with this FP nomination, or the need to keep an old version if we have a better one. Regards, Yann (talk) 08:46, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:A Trip Down Market Street (High Res).webm --Armbrust The Homunculus 11:34, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]