In 1906, the Miles Brothers created the film A Trip Down Market Street, which documented Market Street in San Francisco before a major earthquake struck. After the catastrophe, the authors documented the street once again. Subsequently, the new film was titled A Trip Down Market Street After the Fire, serving as a tragic reflection of the city following a natural disaster and accompanying fires.

In 1974, the structuralist filmmaker Ernie Gehr reprinted the Miles brothers' film in a slow version and called it Eureka. Referring to the chronicle canvas of the Miles brothers and the avant-garde imprint of Ernie Gehr, the virtual camera films the Market Street of the fictional San Fierro in the classic video game GTA: San Andreas (2004) and creates an alternative version of life in which the earthquake could never happen, because the in-game terrestrial bark is a monolithic simulation that cannot be affected by external and internal damage. However, not all in-game space is undamageable, and everything that is "alive" impresses with its fragility. The authors integrate a missile attack on the infrastructure and civilians of Market Street, changing the peaceful way of life to a state of war, rhyming the in-game space with the chronicle A Trip Down Market Street After the Fire.