MOVING POV · APR 14, 1906
A trip down Market Street before the fire
A camera rides the front of a Market Street cable car four days before the earthquake—ordinary street life preserved by position.
Source + rights record ↗ A FIELD KIT FOR THE CITIZEN REPORTER · PUBLIC NETWORK 18+
The news, recorded by the people standing there.
Anyone can preserve a source. Independent angles gather into one inspectable event, and signed originals remain connected to every visible revision.
NRSAMPLE
TRUST TIER
18:42:09:14FRAME 001 · GRAIN 400TRUST TIER
01 / COLOR
Color describes evidence state. It never decorates urgency.
Night
#0D1110Primary fieldFrame
#17201ECapture surfacesEvidence
#F1EEE6Warm film stockRecord
#F04438Capture onlyReporter
#F2C94CCitizen signalProvenance
#55BBAESigned capture chainBundle
#5572D9Geographic events02 / TYPE
Archivo Black speaks. Newsreader carries the human voice. IBM Plex explains. Mono carries the receipts.
DISPLAY · ARCHIVO BLACK + NEWSREADER
THE CITIZEN REPORTER was there.
BODY · IBM PLEX SANS
A source receipt can show where a file came from and whether it changed. Citizen reporters and independent nodes provide the corroboration around it.
METADATA · IBM PLEX MONO
SRC–0A / 2026–07–10T18:42:09–05:00 / SHA–25603 / SIGNATURE
The witness lattice keeps every angle attached to the event.
REC
18:42:09SRC–0ASAMPLE AREA · 44 m
01 REC
18:42:17SRC–12SAMPLE AREA · 31 m
02 REC
18:42:31SRC–27SAMPLE AREA · 53 m
03 SAMPLE · 3 CORROBORATING NODES
EVENT–ATX–0710
Grouped by time, location, and transcript similarity.
EARLIEST18:42:09
RADIUS44 m
CONFIDENCEPROPOSED
Every summary opens back to the raw clips.04 / PRODUCT LANGUAGE
The system separates what happened to the file from what the footage means.
BROWSER CAPTUREUnsigned local web capture for testing. Public trust begins with the signed native capture chain.
CAPTUREDNative NewsReal camera, attested device/app, signed file chain intact.
PAIRINGPublish requested; waiting for at least one independent nearby capture.
CORROBORATEDTwo or more independent nearby nodes agree on time, geometry, motion, or audio.
VAULTEDSigned original and manifest match copies held across independent vault nodes.
NEEDS REVIEWOne or more important signals conflict, fail, or remain unavailable.
“Provenance traces origin and change. People use it to inspect the evidence.”
05 / FOOTAGE LANGUAGE
Motion carries source state. Every archival demonstration says what it is, where it came from, and what caveats travel with it.
AFTERMATH · MAY 1906
San Francisco earthquake and fire
Aftermath footage from early May. The Library notes sensational title cards and a possibly staged scene; the caveat stays attached.
Source + rights record ↗
SECOND ANGLE · MAY 1906
Exploded gas tanks, U.S. Mint, Emporium and Spreckels Building
A separate camera pans across downtown ruins from south of Market Street. Another position, another partial view.
Source + rights record ↗Design rule: never show archival, imported, simulated, or generated footage inside capture chrome without its origin state in the same frame.
History is stewarded in public.
The strongest promise is an original sealed at capture, an append-only lineage, multiple independent custody receipts, and public tools that make every revision visible.
Exact bytes, signed provenance, trusted timestamp, and capture-chain signals.
ORIGINAL BYTES MATCH MANIFESTThree or more independently operated vaults issue signed custody receipts.
NODE A · NODE B · NODE C+Cryptography verifies byte integrity. People and cameras corroborate. AI surfaces inconsistencies.
AI-ASSISTED · HUMAN REVIEWEDEVERY VERSION KEEPS ITS PARENTEvery crop, blur, caption, correction, or withdrawal points back to a parent source.
CONFLICTS REMAIN ATTACHEDContradictory angles stay attached to the same inspectable event record.
AI INSPECTS. PEOPLE JUDGE.AI finds anomalies and compares signals. Human corroboration and review determine what the evidence supports.
FROM NOW ON, HISTORY KEEPS ITS RECEIPTS.Safeguarded by independent vaults. Verified by cryptography. Corroborated by people and cameras. Inspected with AI.