Would love to see someone film the same drive today and post side by side :)

I may give that a try via my bike-mounted cam, but the same exact route isn’t possible today. Back then Flower and 2nd Street crossed cleanly, but that intersection’s long gone.

That was great!

These scenes were filmed for “process plates” to be used in rear screen projection on a movie studio sound stage. The actor(s) were usually seated in a stationary prop car facing the camera while these moving scenes appeared in the background giving the illusion of motion. Sometimes the prop car was rocked a bit by stage hands. These clips are “straight back” plates; side and front views were also filmed. A typical process plate was about two hundred feet of film or roughly two minutes, enough time for the actor(s) to say their lines throughout the scene.The high quality scenes you are watching come from cellulose silver nitrate film stock, the extremely flammable and explosive stuff that was replaced by safety film in the early fifties.