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Earth Shook, The Sky Burned

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Inventory ID 608771
Production Type SPECIALS^SHORT^EDUCATIONAL
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Donor Code 2853 - Packard Humanities Institute: Sabucat Collection
Collection Sabucat

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Format Size 16
Format Type SAFETY
Element Info PRINT
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Color Format B&W
Sound Format OPT^SD.^^^^
Item Holdings 1
Total Reels 1

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Pallet 43 - 20318 - Adapted from the book by William Bronson. Narrator: Ed Brady^Camera: Ralph Luce^Art Direction: Albert Cunningham^Still Photo reprod.: Larry Kenney^Exec. Producer: Marvin Hockabout^Written/Produced: Gordon Waldear and William Bronson.^^Still photographs with narration of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and aftermath.^^Shots of early 1900's San Francisco. Chinatown, Fishermans Warf, ships out on Bay. Ferry boats, crowds at Golden Gate Park, horse drawn carraiges on city street. Trolly cars, street vendors, shoppers, Union Square. Shots of houses, ext. shot The Cliff House restaurant, The Palace Hotel, ext. The Tivoli Theatre. Still shot Enrico Carruso.^^Shots of earthquake aftermath. Crumbled and collapsed buildings, City Hall, cracks in the streets, buildings leaning precariously.^^Build. on fire, horse drawn fire wagons, firemen, rescuers at work, crowds on streets. Ariel shots of city on fire. Mayor Eugene Schmitds, C/U proclamation. Mechanics Pavillion-Emergency Hospital. Army soldiers on horseback. Buildings on fire.^^Peoples possessions litter the streets.^^Map showing San Andreas fault line near San Francisco.^^Fort Ross Chapel collapsed. Church at Tomalis collapsed. Building in Santa Rosa Collapsed. People sifting through rubble.^^Shots of Oakland, Alameda and Berkely damage. San Jose damage, Agnew State Hospital badly damaged.^Major damage at Stanford University.^^Shots of fire damage from all over the city, Shot of the Palace Hotel on fire.^^Many shots of damaged areas, people walking with what few belongings they have.^^Shots of fires burning in Russian Hill and North Beach. LS from across bay of City on fire. Shots of mass destruction everywhere.^^Shots of Sutter Hill, Union Square, Financial District, Palace Hotel, Retail District and Downtown Theatre District. Total losses.^^Shots of some homes on Russian Hill and Telegraph Hill that were spared.^^Crowds of people in streets, tents used for temp. Post Office. Bulletin boards posted everywhere with missing persons reports.^^Military is present to help keep order. Shots of relief centers, crowds, and long lines at food banks.^^Shots of people cooking on stoves in the street, people sitting at row after row of long tables eating.^^Makeshit homeless camps set up in town, Army supplies tents for homeless. C/U camps, temp. churches.^^Demolition of building, clean up efforts begin, train cars full of debris to be dumped in the ocean.^^Shots of temp. businesses opening up, horse drawn wagons, early 1900 model cars parked between piles of rubble still in streets, people walking on the streets.^^Rebuilding begins, huge cranes, steel girders and construction equipment. Iron workers on skyscrapers, shots of different construction site.^^Shots of San Francisco all cleaned up and rebuilt, business as usual. Ariel shots of San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay.

Inventory Items (1)

Reel # Barcode Can Size Reel Size Location Notes
SV0001393867 S217-05E-12