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   John Clear to Peter T. Daniels   
   Re: Nice old footage   
   04 Mar 15 17:39:18   
   
   From: usenet@jac.users.panix.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Peter T. Daniels  wrote:   
   >   
   >The opening aerial montage goes by awfully quickly -- too quickly to figure   
   >out where there might have been a tall building -- and I don't see how aerial   
   >photography was possible in 1905.   
      
   Aerial photography was possible then via use of balloons or kites.   
   There is a nice aerial photo taken from a kite of SF after the 1906   
   earthquake that goes around the net every couple years.   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_in_ruin_edit2.jpg   
      
   John   
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