an astonishing record, the likes of which we rarely see. >> safer: film archivist and historian rick prelinger owns the clearest of the three surviving copies of the film. >> prelinger: this is over 100 years old, but the image quality is just absolutely excellent. >> safer: how fragile is this? >> prelinger: extremely. >> safer: this is a digitally restored, high definition copy, seen here for the first time on television. what is it that moves us so when we see something like this? >> prelinger: it's uncanny, first off, to see something that's so old-- in almost an alternate universe, really. i love when the little kid, in the carriage ahead of the streetcar, and opens up that curtain and peeks out. and then, at the very, very end, the streetcar turns around. and you have a glimpse of newsboys looking at the camera