Totally agree! Without CGI in the past, filmmakers had to work hard to give movies great effects. The result is that the effects are better than CG stuff!
The high speed cameras used to slow down the action and make the miniature effects more realistic were incredibly expensive in 1933, and there were only three channels for sound (voice, music, effects). Imagine watching this movie, then going across the street to see King Kong in the same day.
Since forever, it seems, moviemakers have had the urge to destroy New York. Their argument seems to be: "Destruction is visually satisfying, and to make the strongest possible impression on Americans, one must destroy their icons. Not only once, but as often as possible."
City destruction, yes. Those scenes of people running? No, that'll never look good with only practical effects. Combining CGI and practical effects would be the best solution.
The incredible special effects were accomplished under the supervision of Ned Mann. He did such a fantastic job that the Korda brothers, director Zoltan Korda and producer Alexander Korda, hired him to handle the special effects for the British features THINGS TO COME (1936), THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (1937), THE DIVORCE OF LADY X (1938), and a few others. If there had been an Oscar category for Best Visual Effects, DELUGE would have been nominated.
0:40 There goes the Chrysler Building. 1:08 There goes a building in Times Square. 1:15 There goes the Empire State Building. 1:18 Looks like the spans of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges have given out but the suspension towers remain standing. 1:25 There's the Statue of Liberty. 2:49 There's Grand Central Station (or what's left of it I should probably say). Now the tsunami is destroying the parts of the station that the earthquake didn't. 4:25 There's Lady Liberty again. Now she's the last recognizable thing in the damaged city. I hope that ship heading right towards her doesn't crash into her pedestal, which would cause the statue the giveaway and sink the ship. There's probably a few other famous New York skyscrapers that I missed, but either didn't know the names at the top of my head or were too damaged from the earthquake to recognize.
those miniatures are great, im curious as to how they were made, alot of them crumble and collapse so realistically as opposed to falling over like the stacked cardboard boxes in other films
Just imagine if King Kong was up there at 1:15. "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes, it was this damn earthquake killed the bea-" (gets crushed by the insane earthquake)
Seeing the 9.6 earthquake in San Andreas where there are still buildings standing, while this film basically destroys everything even strong structures such as the Empire State Building, I would guess this quake would be at 50.0 magnitude. Even 10.5 or 10.9 (in 2012) could not produce that scale of destruction.
The scale is logarithmic, magnitude 50 implies such a ridiculously large number that I don't think you were aware of that fact. Leveling NYC probably doesn't need any super strong fictional earthquake, ESB might be strong but non-seismic buildings like it aren't going to survive something like a 8.5. The buildings in San Francisco should be much stronger, they actually were build with large earthquakes in mind.
New York City could not survive a 7.5 earthquake due to the fact that you have a lot of levels underground underneath buildings throughout the city that are probably 10 to maybe twelve stories under the streets of New York City and to top it off too. A lot of those buildings are substandard where they probably could not survive a 5.3 shaker that would shake for about maybe one two maybe three minutes that's probably not going to happen in the future but it possibly can be.
Meesmoth a 50? Bruh the meteor that killed of the dinos was a magnitude 15 theres no possible way a 50 could do that a mag 50 would probably rip apart the earth
The amazing thing is, all this is just the beginning of the film, the rest is about the survivors. As Samuel Goldwyn said: "What we need is a picture that starts with an earthquake and builds to a climax."
Always wanted to see this movie (the FX mainly) ever since I was a kid. Thx uploader, this is one of the awesome things about UA-cam, finally being able to see great stuff.
The way the water flooded into the city and how the water washed up against the Statue of Liberty reminded me of 2 scenes from The Day after Tomorrow. But that's pretty impressive for a movie destruction scene in the 1930s!
Well looks like Titanic's sister ship, RMS Olympic, made a cameo appearance in this film during the tsunami scenes. Notice the four-funnel liner that looks similar to Titanic, and we all know only Olympic left in service, her career was still ongoing at that time. She was retired in the late 30s (can't remember the exact year), so the ship featured in this film is clearly Olympic.
Actually, yeah, it is most probably the Olympic. There were no other 4 funnel liners during that time that match the general description of that ship. The german, french, and cunard ships all had different funnels so it could not have been them, so it must have been olympic. The closest other ships I could find would be those Union Castle ships, but those ship's funnels had a darker colour.
This looks way more devastating and scary than plain CGI. imagine if they combined this technique with today's technology it would make for one hell of an effect!
You know VFX creators don’t care anymore when a movie from the 90s that is pretty much all practical effects looks better than the CGI in the majority of movies we see today
maybe you could remake by making it not black and white that wouldve make it better but i dont really care that no matter how bad or unrealistic a destruction scene is for me is still a destruction scene so it is still a good scene
I want to see this movie, but its very hard to find. This is the first disaster movie ever made, and the effects is very impressive for its time. Even some disaster movies today looks even more fake than this with its poor quality CGI.
the only thing similar is the new york city tsunami day after tomorow doesnt have a earthquake and deluge doesnt have the world freeze over nor does deluge have a bunch if tornadoes
I may be 32 years old and a lover of old movies, but in all honesty, I have NEVER, repeat NEVER even heard of this movie, let alone watch it... until today (Wednesday, July 26, 2023)! I do admit though, the effects are impressive! What's disappointing is that other disaster movies after this one didn't have as good effects, even Earthquake which came out 4 decades later!
You don't know that this was the 1st disaster movie, you can't compare today's effects with back then, the acting was much better back then, no fake effects or green screen!
This is probably the best destruction scene of a city in the history of media. No Michael Bay like destruction, no over the top CGI, this is pure epicness! This is 1000000x better than The Day After Tomorrow.
If water droplets get too close to the camera it can ruin the sense of scale in flooding scenes. So they added a bit of detergent to the water to make whitewater, which makes the waves look bigger.
If I was King Kong watching this from the perch of some bridge over the East River, I'dprobably shrug my shoulders and go book passage on the next boat heading to Skull Island.
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I have to admit, for 1933, this is an awesome destruction.
The high expense, more astounding the sheer *time,* it took to make these scenes proves there used to be talent in hoIIywood.
Me too
@@kriskaiser33 it's long time ago of this place in New York!
Totally agree! Without CGI in the past, filmmakers had to work hard to give movies great effects. The result is that the effects are better than CG stuff!
Without this film, there would not be ANY major disaster movies!
Wow, considering this is nearly a 90 year old movie, the effects are spectacular!
It becomes even more impressive considering that this movie was made on a budget of less than $200k .
@Christophe Leclair bruh what
Now it is 90 Years old
The high speed cameras used to slow down the action and make the miniature effects more realistic were incredibly expensive in 1933, and there were only three channels for sound (voice, music, effects). Imagine watching this movie, then going across the street to see King Kong in the same day.
Money well spent! Time to end the day with supper at the soup kitchen
Since forever, it seems, moviemakers have had the urge to destroy New York. Their argument seems to be: "Destruction is visually satisfying, and to make the strongest possible impression on Americans, one must destroy their icons. Not only once, but as often as possible."
honestly, i prefer real life sets being destroyed rather than cgi.
Yeah cgi looks kind of ugly most of the time
Always. Even in 2020, CGI looks fake because it can never simulate depth well. It's a cartoon.
City destruction, yes. Those scenes of people running? No, that'll never look good with only practical effects. Combining CGI and practical effects would be the best solution.
The Day After Tomorrow: 1933 edition.
You read my mind. Deluge was ahead of its time showcasing New York devastated by a tsunami. Day After Tomorrow before Day After Tomorrow
And Also 2012 for some earthquake L.A scenes
The incredible special effects were accomplished under the supervision of Ned Mann. He did such a fantastic job that the Korda brothers, director Zoltan Korda and producer Alexander Korda, hired him to handle the special effects for the British features THINGS TO COME (1936), THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (1937), THE DIVORCE OF LADY X (1938), and a few others. If there had been an Oscar category for Best Visual Effects, DELUGE would have been nominated.
Thank you. This is very impressive and I'm glad to have your input!
0:40 There goes the Chrysler Building.
1:08 There goes a building in Times Square.
1:15 There goes the Empire State Building.
1:18 Looks like the spans of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges have given out but the suspension towers remain standing.
1:25 There's the Statue of Liberty.
2:49 There's Grand Central Station (or what's left of it I should probably say). Now the tsunami is destroying the parts of the station that the earthquake didn't.
4:25 There's Lady Liberty again. Now she's the last recognizable thing in the damaged city. I hope that ship heading right towards her doesn't crash into her pedestal, which would cause the statue the giveaway and sink the ship.
There's probably a few other famous New York skyscrapers that I missed, but either didn't know the names at the top of my head or were too damaged from the earthquake to recognize.
I know that it's late but I think that in 3:15 the two tallest remaining buildings are Woolworth and Equitable Building.
3:16 remnents of chrysler and empire state building
The Public Library gets it at 2:49
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3:45 the Woolworth building (without a roof) collapses
This is amazing filmmaking. Just think about the fact that this was shot nearly 90 years ago.
those miniatures are great, im curious as to how they were made, alot of them crumble and collapse so realistically as opposed to falling over like the stacked cardboard boxes in other films
Deluge was the first film to capture the total destruction of New York City, it was filmed entirely in Los Angeles.
Just imagine if King Kong was up there at 1:15.
"Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes, it was this damn earthquake killed the bea-" (gets crushed by the insane earthquake)
Basically 2020 in one day
Magnitude 20.999 Earthquake 1:54
Seeing the 9.6 earthquake in San Andreas where there are still buildings standing, while this film basically destroys everything even strong structures such as the Empire State Building, I would guess this quake would be at 50.0 magnitude. Even 10.5 or 10.9 (in 2012) could not produce that scale of destruction.
The scale is logarithmic, magnitude 50 implies such a ridiculously large number that I don't think you were aware of that fact.
Leveling NYC probably doesn't need any super strong fictional earthquake, ESB might be strong but non-seismic buildings like it aren't going to survive something like a 8.5.
The buildings in San Francisco should be much stronger, they actually were build with large earthquakes in mind.
New York City could not survive a 7.5 earthquake due to the fact that you have a lot of levels underground underneath buildings throughout the city that are probably 10 to maybe twelve stories under the streets of New York City and to top it off too. A lot of those buildings are substandard where they probably could not survive a 5.3 shaker that would shake for about maybe one two maybe three minutes that's probably not going to happen in the future but it possibly can be.
They are overdue an earthquake so it will take their minds off the Covid 19 pandemic.
Meesmoth a 50? Bruh the meteor that killed of the dinos was a magnitude 15 theres no possible way a 50 could do that a mag 50 would probably rip apart the earth
The amazing thing is, all this is just the beginning of the film, the rest is about the survivors. As Samuel Goldwyn said: "What we need is a picture that starts with an earthquake and builds to a climax."
Always wanted to see this movie (the FX mainly) ever since I was a kid. Thx uploader, this is one of the awesome things about UA-cam, finally being able to see great stuff.
Wow, I've never seen this before! Epic effects for the time. Heck, better than most of the 50s and 60s. Came out the same year as King Kong.
The collapsing buildings look great much effort must have gone into their construction!.
This film was an adaptation of the 1928 science fiction novel "Deluge : A Romance" by the British SciFi author Sidney Fowler Wright.
Yes, and that was followed by a sequel entitled Dawn. Both are well worth reading. Wright was also a fine writer of short stories.
The way the water flooded into the city and how the water washed up against the Statue of Liberty reminded me of 2 scenes from The Day after Tomorrow. But that's pretty impressive for a movie destruction scene in the 1930s!
Why do I giggle when I hear and see the looped people running in terror?
Those poor model makers ! Seeing all their hard work crumbling into dust !
Well looks like Titanic's sister ship, RMS Olympic, made a cameo appearance in this film during the tsunami scenes. Notice the four-funnel liner that looks similar to Titanic, and we all know only Olympic left in service, her career was still ongoing at that time. She was retired in the late 30s (can't remember the exact year), so the ship featured in this film is clearly Olympic.
it's only a model.
It doesn't look like Olympic in the least bit though. The superstructure looks nothing like her.
Not exact, but I thought the same as you - a four-funnelled liner with White Star colours, must be 'Olympic-class'.
I see TITANIC 1912
2:11
3:35
I thought the titanic sank
Actually, yeah, it is most probably the Olympic. There were no other 4 funnel liners during that time that match the general description of that ship. The german, french, and cunard ships all had different funnels so it could not have been them, so it must have been olympic. The closest other ships I could find would be those Union Castle ships, but those ship's funnels had a darker colour.
This looks way more devastating and scary than plain CGI. imagine if they combined this technique with today's technology it would make for one hell of an effect!
I wouldn’t say that lol
This technique is way too basic however, but they could imitate it if that’s what you mean
You know VFX creators don’t care anymore when a movie from the 90s that is pretty much all practical effects looks better than the CGI in the majority of movies we see today
@@TrickyPJM752 uh, yeah they do. What are you talking about
@@zenthous9568 Look at She-Hulk or Black Panther compared to Independence Day (1996)
I've been looking for this scene since forever
1:14 Empire State Building
1:25 Statue of Liberty
4:25
2:51 Grand Central Terminal
What I wouldn't give for a remake of this. Still destroying models without cgi, but instead of 1933 NYC, it would be 2019 NYC
ah, just wait a few decades. you won't need any special effects at all.
@@SpaceHunterM harhar.
@@SpaceHunterM hahaha
maybe you could remake by making it not black and white that wouldve make it better but i dont really care that no matter how bad or unrealistic a destruction scene is for me is still a destruction scene so it is still a good scene
I disagree with some comments and find it more effective than much CGI of today. Peggy Shannon gave a fabulous performance in this movie.
this celery stick I just ate agreed with me though
1933 Statue of Liberty 🗽 tsunami
Very good ! The tidal wave is excellent.
I want to see this movie, but its very hard to find. This is the first disaster movie ever made, and the effects is very impressive for its time.
Even some disaster movies today looks even more fake than this with its poor quality CGI.
Actually the first disaster movie was The Comet from 1910.
Deluge (1933)
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Also check out the re-creation of the San Francisco earthquake as depicted in THE SHOCK (1926).
@@IAmJimRetzer The movie "San Francisco" from 1936 has the best depiction of the 1906 quake
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This makes Roland Emmerich's disaster sequences (ID4 to 2012) seem elementary.
And this was made in 1933. Deluge is precursor to Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow
the only thing similar is the new york city tsunami day after tomorow doesnt have a earthquake and deluge doesnt have the world freeze over nor does deluge have a bunch if tornadoes
no they don't. that's just silly.
I guess the special-effects-chief Ned Mann would be chief of Spielbergs Dreamwork nowadays :-)
I’m here because of corrider crew, this looks sick for 1933
Still holds up to some of the stuff I see today tbh
I like how the clips where there are people screaming and running are actually just sped up footage of people walking on the streets.
Fascinating to watch pre-CG practical FX at work, particularly when the art of FX was still in relatively early infancy!
This must have been something for people in 1933 to see looks great wow
2:09 really like how well designed those ocean liners are
I saw this movie. It was called The Day After Tomorrow (huge wave hitting New York).
This looks like it would've been tons of fun to make.
Man that must of been a 12 on the Richter scale!!!
0:34 - 0:35 you can obviously see a cut there.
WOW! This is incredible. I didn't Knowles this movie!!!!!
I gotta say, model building destruction is a whole lot better than CGI destruction.
Wow, I didn't know about this predictive programming. And in 19-33 too.
Damn, this is awesome!
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Wow! They went all in and did the work. I hope it wowed audiences.
Incredible with mode fast 2x
Special effects are really awesome judging from the period when this movie was produced.
How that tiny building fall and crack like that I'm so impressed, I think building mad of from powder or something 😁
Felix E. Feist is the early 20th Century version of Michael Bay... This is a Michael Bay preview that we weren't ready for...
1:32 DAY AFTER TOMORROW
I may be 32 years old and a lover of old movies, but in all honesty, I have NEVER, repeat NEVER even heard of this movie, let alone watch it... until today (Wednesday, July 26, 2023)! I do admit though, the effects are impressive! What's disappointing is that other disaster movies after this one didn't have as good effects, even Earthquake which came out 4 decades later!
Well done movie. I'm impressed
Considering this movie is pushing 90 years ago, that would have been state of the art special effects back in those days.
Holy crap that was awesome
1:33 - that must be how she finished up buried on the beach!
Wow, this is crazy impressive.
They finally found the English print of this movie?
epic effects !
That's pretty impressive considering the time!
The soundtrack!
You don't know that this was the 1st disaster movie, you can't compare today's effects with back then, the acting was much better back then, no fake effects or green screen!
thank you great almighty film historian I had no idea whatsoever
SpaceHunterM l just know these things, my dad watched TCM and the History channel.
*lol*
Mark Peters this aint the first disaster movie the first one ive heard of is from 1910
This sequence has several shots using travelling mattes, which are the film version of green screen chroma-key used in video.
This 90 old film is great
muchos planos de esta escena estan mucho mejor logrados que peliculas actuales
Who this is way ahead of it's time?...the special Effects are Great 👍
Greek mythology: Sinking of Atlantis
1933: Sinking of New York
2012: Sinking of Los Angeles
0:15 There it goes Earthquake New York
1:19 There is at Massive Tsunami New York
Statue of liberty🗽 WIN
It is a very disturbing scene. No one could have survive that scale of destruction.
Many did,and they rebuit
Pretty good effects for 1933, but did they have to make the buildings out of cake?
i love times like this
This is probably the best destruction scene of a city in the history of media. No Michael Bay like destruction, no over the top CGI, this is pure epicness! This is 1000000x better than The Day After Tomorrow.
Honestly, this scene is much better than CGI.
Yes
People aren't running but walking fast forward, Queen elizabeth style.
They got it right by filming it fast!
90 Years ago??? Well, that is pretty impressing, good one 👍
If water droplets get too close to the camera it can ruin the sense of scale in flooding scenes. So they added a bit of detergent to the water to make whitewater, which makes the waves look bigger.
I like it!
Holy shit!!! :0
kenny everett video show brought me here (1978) :-)
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dang this is actually better than CGI, but i wonder what would it look like in the movie 2012
I wish people still destroyed models for movies
If I was King Kong watching this from the perch of some bridge over the East River, I'dprobably shrug my shoulders and go book passage on the next boat heading to Skull Island.
In 1933 NYC and NY has been hit by an earthquake and a tsunami hit the city
Advanced washing away of a sand castle from nearly 100 years ago.
1:13 music the amazing❤
How have I NEVER HEARD OF OR SEEN this movie!?!? Pretty damn good for 1933.....I bet it blew minds left & right back then!
0:15
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Impressive
Guy: All east river bridg--
Building: Ight imma collapse.
It's really a good movie.
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Salute to Poseidon.
And also mini things they use.
How did the cameraman survive?
Way better than "2012".
Some FX may be dated, but the montage is top notch. Buy I do prefer the use of pratical FX than CGI.
this is cool. 90 years later