At 1:15 seems to show a automted turntable (but I am told that the operater may have been edited out)-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axe9oajEwTc
At .16 it shows everyone helping to turn the car-
If you’ll look at the lower right side of the cable car, you can see an operator is pushing the car in a counter clockwise direction.
Yep now I see him,He is camofloged in the morning light and gray film but yep he is there
For a historical footnote, Market Street Railway had double track turntables at the Ferry Building powered off of the cable. Before the 1906 earthquake, of course…