THIS DAY IN HISTORY 04/18/06 SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE: Vintage BW footage of the San Francisco earthquake aftermath: Crumbled and crumbling buildings and debris, fires burn

A high-rise in the city is on fire, potentially the result of war, with flames covering the entire structure.

ORIG. NEG. 80 FT. SIL VARIOUS SHOTS SHOWING CRACKES IN THE WALLS OF THE CAPITOL BUILDING. CU BUST OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. CI: GEOGRAPHIC - D. C. , WASHINGTON. BUILDINGS - GOVT. , U. S. , CAPITOL.

This 1944-1945 black-and-white military propaganda film contains various segments including dramatic aerial bombing footage. Romania switched to the Allies in 1944. Soviet troops repair a blown-up bridge as troops and military equipment cross into Romania (:10-1:40). Siret looks abandoned. Soviet tanks pass through Botosani. Inhabitants return in ox carts past marching soldiers. A cannon is towed (1:41-2:27). The Citadel explodes as bombs are dropped. A soldier runs past bombed-out buildings. German prisoners sit together. Colonel Von Aulock is captured. His orderly appears drunk (2:28-3:57). Soldiers pass a WWI Memorial. Unsafe buildings crumble. Soldiers fire at German snipers (3:58-4:42). A Frenchman on a ladder hands out hidden weapons. A woman in a dress carries a machine gun (4:43-5:26). The Chartres Cathedral is panned. Troops fire up at snipers. German prisoners march with hands on heads. Nazi sympathizers are arrested; the women’s heads shaved. An angry mob threatens through bars. Lemoore Cinema Pathe theatre and shops reopen to rationing tickets. American nurses on bicycles window-shop. Soldiers enjoy a café as military vehicles pass. A crowd waits for Paris news outside St. Paul’s Cathedral (5:27-7:55). The gates open at Stalag XI-B, Stalag 357, and Oflag 79; excited Allied prisoners are freed. General Keitel does a Nazi salute to troops capturing him. Spanish spies and Hitler Youth are identified. Abandoned German items include ball bearings, gold reserve bars, and stolen Louvre paintings. Women hit and spit on Nazi prisoners. A firing squad shoots traitors. German citizens turn over weapons (7:56-11:57). Winston Churchill gives a speech condemning the Japanese (11:58-13:00). Generals Doolittle and Anderson are briefed on an Eastern Front map. B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft fly in formation. Aerial cameras record the Berlin bombing (13:01-16:11). RAF heavy bombers attack Dresden at night; the bombing shots flashing brightly. B-17 bombers drop bombs that detonate. Tanks are loaded on IF tank transporters, which move through mud and water. British gunners fire; the building crumbles. German POWs march; Nazis surrender from buildings as tanks move through the street (16:12-20:10). Nazi Arctic bases are exposed as explosions break open the ice. Captured supplies and prisoners are shown (20:11-20:59). Bombers make their way to Burma. Aerial cameras capture bombs dropping and explosions. Ground troops and tanks move in; soldiers are shot and fall. American combat cameras capture footage of the sky full of Allied planes. Still photographs show the smoke from burning Berlin targets (21:00-25:23). Major General Lewis Brereton makes a speech to free Europe. B-26 Marauder bombers are loaded and shown in flight. Pilots put on anti-flak helmets. The planes fly through anti-aircraft attacks. Cameras show close-ups of bombs leaving the plane and target explosions. A plane hit by flak leaves a trail of smoke. A view from the cockpit shows the return to base. 1940s ambulances, motorcycles, and nurses wait. A plane lands on its belly (25:24-32:45). A U-boat periscope moves through the water. South African service women operate radar machines to detect the submarines. They watch screens, plot graphs, and use the filter rule to lay out situation using small figures on a graphed board. A plane is scrambled to match the radar situation room’s findings. The submarine dives as the plane drops bombs on it, causing an explosion (32:46-35:04). Close-ups show the RAF dropping bombs on various targets. The footage is taken from the plane as it fires below on Germany positions, trains, and convoys. Vapor trails fill the sky as bombs drop and the ground explodes (36:05-38:24). <p><p>We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference."<p><p>This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

Cherbourg, France, Germans surrender to US troops; US soldiers move through streets, French civilians celebrating, British soldiers in unknown location. ""CHERBOURG 6.27.44 GERMAN WEHRMACHT AND KRIEGSMARINE PRISONERS WITH AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN CHERB GERMAN PRISONERS AMERICAN SOLDIERS SHARING DRINKS FROM CANTEEN US SOLDIERS FROM 9TH INFANTRY DIVISION CHECKING WOUND US SOLDIERS WITH US COLONEL WALKING IN CHERBOURG US JEEP DRIVING PAST RUINS DEBRIS US SOLDIERS RUNNING TOWARDS TANK IN CHERBOURG CHERBOURG FROM ABOVE US TANK CRUMBLING BUILDING BURNING FIRE ARTILLERY TANK GETTING FLIPPED OVER US SOLDIERS RUNNING COVER HOUSE TO HOUSE FIGHTING CIVILIANS IN CHERBOURG GUYS IN SUITS HAPPY FRENCH CIVILIANS IN CHERBOURG US SOLDIER RUNNING WAVING DOWN STREET IN CHERBOURG US SOLDIERS WALKING CARRYING SUPPLIES DOWN STREET US TANK DRIVING OVER RUBBLE CHERBOURG BRITISH ROYAL MARINE SOLDIER ON PHONE UNKNOWN LOCATION BRITISH ROYAL MARINES GO THROUGH HOUSE US SOLDIER ON PHONE US FLAG HANGING OVER GERMAN POWS US SOLDIER REMOVING PIC OF HITLER FROM WALL"". WWII in HD

00:00:00:00 VS debris, interior burned out buildings, burned pieces of lumber, crumbling stone walls / MS exterior building / MS European Union SUVs parked outside the building / VS European Union mon ...

Title reads: "Vienna".<br/><br/>Austria.<br/><br/>Final demolition of Vienna's Rotunda (large glass palace). Various shots (taken a few months before) of large fire at Rotunda. Panning shot of pile of rubble - all that currently remains of building. Various shots of workmen clearing the debris to make way for a new building to replace old Rotunda. They start a fire a the base of a pillar - spectacular shot of pillar crumbling to ground.

German civilians carry their belongings thru decimated remains of Cologne, Germany

Irish civil war in Dublin ,Ireland. Smoke rises as the Four Courts is bombed. Dome of the court. A crumbled wall of the court. Exteriors of the Four Court. Fire blazes come out of the window of the court. People on sidewalk. A streetcar in the background. People near the damaged building of the Four courts. Location: Dublin Ireland. Date: 1922.

disasters - earthquake - Guggenheim Museum crumbles in earthquake, camera shakes - New York Stock Exchange crumbles and falls, surrounding buildings crumble - public restroom sinks break from wall - New York City - NYC - disaster - aftermath - destruction natural

URBAN DECAY, CRUMBLING BUILDINGS, CU TRUCK TIRES SPIN. BULLDOZER. BUILDINGS TORN DOWN. WRECKING BALL. BUILDING CRUMBLES. DE-CONSTRUCTION.

Quick shots of German guns being fired, buildings crumbling, shells exploding in field, in ruins.

CU then WS of the crumbling front entrance of an ancient Greek building - the only part of the building still standing at the Acropolis of Athens.

Cuban Ambush

The ground shakes, buildings crumble, walls fall, and music swells in the opening moments of the 19-minute U.S. Army Corps of Engineers film, “Response to Disaster,” detailing the events of Great Alaskan earthquake (also known as the Good Friday earthquake) on March 27, 1964. “Beneath this rugged crust of Earth in our 49th state, Alaska, tremendous stress has built up miles below the surface,” the announcer warns beginning at mark 00:32 as the camera pans snow-covered mountains. At mark 00:50. disaster strikes. At the Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, the base commander (starting at mark 01:20) explains the 8.5 magnitude earthquake. The film takes the viewer through the aftermath: burning oil, ships tossed out of the ocean, and homes, apartments, and buildings turned to rubble in and around Anchorage. At mark 02:54, the damage is shown in Seward, Alaska, about 80 miles away, including damage to highways and harbors. Following President Lyndon B. Johnson’s declaration of the region as a disaster area, Office of Emergency Planning (OEP) Director Edward A McDermott is shown speaking from his office at mark 03:50, pledging federal help to the Alaskans and commending residents for their desire to immediately rebuild.<p><p>The Corps of Engineers, in association with the OEP — FEMA's predecessor — moved in to help the quake-stricken region. quickly to help communities in distress. Less than 10 hours after the calamity, Alaska District Engineer Colonel Kenneth T. Sawyer sent emergency to assess the damage. A survey of the damage continues throughout the film, including a scene at mark 07:20 showing nearly dry land where there was once a harbor. At mark 07:55, the viewer is shown another scene from Seward, where railroad facilities slid into the ocean. Following footage showing engineers separating stable ground from still-unstable soil, the film takes us to scientists at the University of California-Berkeley, where at mark 09:45 they’re shown conducting experiments to determine what may have caused the quake.<p><p>As clean-up continued, Governor William A. Egan visits Valdez at mark 11:30 during Independence Day celebrations, commending the Alaskan peoples’ morale and the assistant of the OEP and the Corps of Engineers, as the film continues to roll and show the viewer demolition and reconstruction efforts.<p><p>As a result of the earthquake, 139 people are believed to have died — 15 in the earthquake and 106 from a subsequent tsunami, and the Corps spent more than $110 million on salvage, rescue, and rehabilitation operations. By the end of the film, however, fisheries are back in operation, children have returned to schools, tourism was resuming, and railways have been repaired. “Today Alaska is well along the road to recovery,” we are told by McDermott at mark 17:22 “It’s people look forward not merely to the restoration of what was but to the creation … of perhaps a new way of life in our 49th state.”

The city's first skyscraper in two decades is dedicated, the 41-story Prudential Building. Various shots exterior and interior of Prudential. At the time this footage was taken. The Prudential Building, 41 stories, was the tallest building in downtown Chicago, 1955. View from upper window looking west over the Loop. (Building, dedication) Chicago streets and skyscrapers, showcasing the Prudential. MCUS - The Prudential building panning shot. MCUS - Inside the lobby of the A Change in Chicago Skyline: Prudential Building. CUS - Dedication is taking place and a time capsule is sealed into the wall of the building. CUS - The Illinois State Seal. CUS - Pannels showing off the 27 high speed elevators. MS - The conference room, oval table many men sitting around it. MCUS - Observation tower, people looking at the other buildings and streets below, hazy day. the loop shot from the observation tower. Housing Blast: Bomb Plot Hinted As 25 Die In Germany. A mysterious blast destroys a new apartment house, with block-buster impact. Cause of the explosion, which killed 25, in unknown, but as rescue workers sift the crumbled wreckage for 1 person still believed to have perished, police speculate that an act of political assassination may have been attempted, at shocking cost. OH shot, the building is reduced to rubble, police and rescuers searching the heap of bricks for a sign a life. CUS - Police and rescue worker sifting through the bricks, plaster and wood looking for survivors. CUS - Towns people crowded together watching and looking at this big disaster that lays in front of them. CUS - Policeman holds a scarf for a second and then he discards it. MS - An army crane to assist in searching. MCUS - Police and rescue workers removing a dead body. CUS - Older man wearing glasses and a cap. OHS - Removal of another dead body, hordes of police and rescue workers. Pope Pius X11 And President Signor Gronchi - Italy. His Holiness Pope Pius XII gives a formal audience to Italy's President Gronchi, at which the treaty between the Vatican and Italy is renewed, in Accordance with Papal tradition. President Gronchi, of Italy was staunchly anti-communist and was known as a stimulating person. Guards of the Vatican Basilica. MCUS - Holy procession of Italy's President - Signor Gronchi on way to his formal audience with His Holiness Pope Pius XII. MS - Vatican Basilica fountain off to the left. MS - Pope Pius Xii and President Signor Gronchi, kneeling getting blessed. CUS - Pope Pius XII and President Signor Gronchi of Italy, wearing a huge smile. Rioting at the US. Pavilion marks the Ethiopian Trade Fair. No politics involved - crowds get excited over free color pictures of Emperor Haile Sclassie, and the police move in to keep order. Establishing shot - Record crowds at the United States pavilion at the Ethiopian Trade Fair. MOHS - A small riot erupts over free pictures of Emperor Haile Sclassie. MCUS - Pushing and shoving men trying to make their way to get a free picture. CUS - Crowd and some of the men holding up their newly acquired picture of the emperor. MCUS - Police move in and start whacking some of the men with their Billie sticks. CUS - In spite of the blows from the policemen some members of the crowd is smiling. Vice President Nixon presents the Harmon Trophy to the Nation's Outstanding Aviator of the Year, Marine Colonel James Coleman, who test-piloted the 'Pogo-Stick' plane. Establishing shot - Vice President Nixon and Marine Colonel, James Coleman. CUS - Marine Colonel, James Coleman holding up his trophy. CUS - His medal. Floor shot up - Colonel James Coleman. MCUS - Vice President Nixon and Colonel James Coleman. Oil riches brings Caracas, Capital City of Venezuela up to modern times. President Jirnenez dedicates a modern school for the children and a housing project for 13,000 people. Rent per month would be $25.00. (Back in 1955 that is not a real cheap rent). Establishing shot - Aerial shot of the capital city, Caracas. Aerial shot - Highways with cars. MCUS - President Jirnenez and other officers. CUS - School children applauding the President as he passes by. CUS - President Jirnenez cutting a ribbon at the dedication. Camera panning - City shot, housing and school. CUS - People getting water from the community well. Camera panning - From poor housing to the new apartment buildings. MCUS/OH - President Jirnenez and his entourage. MLS - Apartment buildings. Heisman Award Goes to Cassady: Presented with the annual Heisman Award for Football's Outstanding Player of the Year, Ohio State's Howard Hopalong Cassady. Newsreel clips bring back highlights of his '55 grid performance which climaxed 4 sensational years on the collegiate gridiron. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions. Establishing shot - Raymond Tierney presenting the Heisman Award to Howard Hopalong Cassidy, his wife is standing by his side. CUS - Raymond Tierney, Howard Cassady (alt spelling Cassidy), his wife and ?. MLS - Football clips from Ohio State University. CUS - Head shot of Howard. CUS - Howard and his wife, giving each other a quick kiss. Sweet. Snowy slopes make winter official for ski-birds, and the camera captures an early glimpse of fashionable ski-togs for the coming season. The trend is toward gay colors, with a special bow for the look-alike set - match mate sweaters for the trail. Establishing shot - Snow covered trees Mt. Hood, Oregon. MCUS - Snow covered lodge, two skiers. CUS - St. Bernard dog laying on the floor of the lodge, under a coffee table. MCUS - Three models, introducing sports apparel introduced by Jenson. Male model has a plaid vest on and the female model has a plaid skirt, solid colored sweater trimmed by a plaid collar. CUS - More models sitting by the fireplace, wearing solid color sweaters and plaid pants. MLS - Skiers outside with their skis, male and female models have matching sweaters on, in the Northman's pattern. CUS - Two models, male and female have matching solid sweaters with hoods. CUS - Female model wearing the Jester, cap and scarf with knitted in design. MLS - Crowd of skiers headed for the lift. Tow rope, chair lift or the ski cap purrs your way to the top. MLS - Skiers skiing down hill.

Several aerials of Fort Jefferson at the end of the Florida Keys / A building with a crumbling roof / The Loggerhead Lighthouse(house) stands above the fort / Buildings with no roofs / A gravel roof and a cannon in the dirt; a view through trees of a buil

Various shots of bombed-out building, man walking in the ruins. MCU of hole in the floor of building caused by explosive, TILT UP to show hole in ceiling where it came in. MCUs of walls pockmarked with shrapnel holes, crumbling stairs.

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