A camera starts on a sloppy scene: people walking around, a building that's seen better days, palm trees, with fronds waving in the breeze. As the camera pans to the left, the busy people continue, but the audience sees the devastation left by the San Francisco Earthquake.Siegmund Lubin sent Jack Frawley Bonine started with to San Francisco to chronicle the devastation, and came up with actualities far better than Robert K. Bonine did for Edison. Bonine started with the ruins, and continued with the ruins, finally showing you some signs of life. Frawley took the opposite tack: starting with an air of "Oh, that isn't so bad," he showed the audience that yes, indeed, it was.