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[From Paramount Screen Souvenirs collection] QS Videoart Opticals logo / title card: "On April 18, 1906, the nation was struck by one of the greatest catastrophes in its history"/ VS newspaper headlines about the San Francisco earthquake and fire, including "Entire City Seems Doomed to Destruction" and map of the stricken district / night: VS fires rage / day: crowds on street watch as smoke billows from behind a building / intertitle: "...and days later the smoke lifts on scenes of appalling ruin" / pile of rubble, shell of building / collapsed street and cable car track / destroyed building with sign "Journal of Electricity Power & Gas"; VS pans across rubble; horse-drawn traffic moves through / rear shot cart laden with people and possessions moves on street with other carriages / rear shot two women look at cleanup activity / still photo sign on EXT building "A little disfigured, but still in the ring - men wanted" / cable car moves past, laden with passengers // title: "Whoopee! There were plenty of places to go when a big horse-and-buggy man blew into town" / title card: "Publix Theatres Corporation presents Movie Memories...passed by the National Board of Review" ("No. 3" at lower left) / sponsorship message from Chesterfield cigarettes; burning cigarette wafts smoke as superimposed year dates move by / intertitle: "A 1903 joy ride! A wild party burns up the roads along Riverside Drive, New York" / passengers riding inside and on top of a carriage move past Grant's Tomb / waving passengers ride up to house, disembark; domestic staff greets them // intertitle re Tommy Burns/Bill Squires boxing match (date shown of 5/7/1907 is inaccurate - was really 7/4/1907); no footage // intertitle "a peek into an old-time stage dressing room..." / vaudeville actresses Mazie and Frances Trumbull and others run into dressing room, do a quick costume change, run back out / on stage, actresses strike sassy poses on folding chairs (rare footage)