# What Historical Event Would You Most Like To Have Video Footage Of? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-event-would-you-most-like-to-have-video-footage-of/496440 "2009-05-14T18:49:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-event-would-you-most-like-to-have-video-footage-of/496440/81 "2009-05-17T15:58:51Z")
Demosthenes giving a speech. Pericles giving a speech. Marc Antony’s eulogy for Julius Caesar. Queen Elizabeth the First’s “I have the heart of a king, and a king of England!” speech. George Washington’s farewell address. William Gillette performing Sherlock Holmes. Homer reciting the _Iliad_ and the _Odyssey_. An Anglo-Saxon skald singing _Beowulf_. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-event-would-you-most-like-to-have-video-footage-of/496440/82 "2009-05-17T22:45:37Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64AOuabJyMw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64AOuabJyMw) > Market Street, San Francisco, 1905. Before the 1906 Earthquake. Note that the automobile traffic is staged, the same cars show up again and again. Interesting to compare it with 1941: (Same street starting from 0:07 to 0:49) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-event-would-you-most-like-to-have-video-footage-of/496440/83 "2009-05-17T22:50:44Z")
Discussion among John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman over Jefferson’s first draft of the Declaration of Independence. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-event-would-you-most-like-to-have-video-footage-of/496440/84 "2009-05-17T22:51:27Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64AOuabJyMw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64AOuabJyMw) > Market Street, San Francisco, 1905. Before the 1906 Earthquake. Note that the automobile traffic is staged, the same cars show up again and again. (Of course it would work with the link) Interesting to compare it with 1941: San Fransisco in 1941: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wzqs6DF_wGE/hqdefault.jpg "San Francisco Market Street 1941") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzqs6DF_wGE) (Same street starting from 0:07 to 0:49) ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-event-would-you-most-like-to-have-video-footage-of/496440/85 "2009-05-18T01:43:13Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > George Washington’s farewell address. I thought this didn’t happen, as a speech. I thought it was only a letter printed in many newspapers around the country. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-event-would-you-most-like-to-have-video-footage-of/496440/86 "2009-05-18T02:10:37Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I thought this didn’t happen, as a speech. I thought it was only a letter printed in many newspapers around the country. You are correct. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-historical-event-would-you-most-like-to-have-video-footage-of/496440.md?page=4)