The problem back then is unlike digital video of today, film was a one time use. So while today you could continuously record and overwrite the past recording, they couldnt waste film like that. They had to sit and hope that they pressed record as soon as the collapse started. It would be super hard to get it right at the moment of collapse.
@@emiliadimitrova9496 The English are good that way, very magnanimous and gracious - that's why they said to Scotland; "Yes, please, go forth and build a Scotland you can be proud of".. and the English 'returned' Scotland to Scotland and they all lived happily ever after. The End.
I suspect it wasn't like it would be today. Film was expensive, and it would have cost a fortune to leave film cameras running constantly from the moment they knew it was going to collapse. Now, of course, you could just edit the thing off your live web cam, easy-peazy.
Newsreels, boy that brings back memories! Watched them before the cartoon and the main attraction (along with the coming attractions). Don't go to movies anymore, expensive, rude people, boring movies and NOT CARTOONS!
Times change, and not everything improves. That's for sure. I loved those long ago Saturday matinees for kids when they'd run the newreel and then 16 Warner Brothers cartoons in a row! Meep-meep!
The type of speech, word choice, & colourful commentary in this era, from these old newsreels, reveals some general level of intelligence & sophistication that seems higher than today. Amazing footage!
The cameraman sat in wait and that was his best capture of the collapse. Oh dear if only the spectators on the top looking down had had mobile phones lol.
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"Movietone's cameraman stood by day after day . . . & was taking a smoke break when the collapse started"
The problem back then is unlike digital video of today, film was a one time use. So while today you could continuously record and overwrite the past recording, they couldnt waste film like that. They had to sit and hope that they pressed record as soon as the collapse started. It would be super hard to get it right at the moment of collapse.
My Grandpa was 7, and they all heard the crash from his school classroom that day
OK I've lived 33 years within biking distance of the falls and never knew a bridge collapse there.
If they did news like this I would watch again
A honeymoon to remember that day.
wow omg! thanks for the upload
Nature in the raw is seldom mild.
Now I want to know why "the eyes of the British Empire focus on Hong Kong."
Japanese had invaded China...Hong Kong was British outpost.
Hong Kong was a part of British Empire for a 100 years. Then, it was returned to China.
@@emiliadimitrova9496 The English are good that way, very magnanimous and gracious - that's why they said to Scotland; "Yes, please, go forth and build a Scotland you can be proud of".. and the English 'returned' Scotland to Scotland and they all lived happily ever after. The End.
looks like the cameraman was having a cigarette right at ther point it started to go....
I suspect it wasn't like it would be today. Film was expensive, and it would have cost a fortune to leave film cameras running constantly from the moment they knew it was going to collapse. Now, of course, you could just edit the thing off your live web cam, easy-peazy.
He did exactly the same thing at the Tacoma Narrows bridge. Dude never learns.
@@darioinfini - hahahaha!
My MOM took a photo of the bridge after the collapse. I got the photo.
Newsreels, boy that brings back memories! Watched them before the cartoon and the main attraction (along with the coming attractions). Don't go to movies anymore, expensive, rude people, boring movies and NOT CARTOONS!
Times change, and not everything improves. That's for sure. I loved those long ago Saturday matinees for kids when they'd run the newreel and then 16 Warner Brothers cartoons in a row! Meep-meep!
The type of speech, word choice, & colourful commentary in this era, from these old newsreels, reveals some general level of intelligence & sophistication that seems higher than today.
Amazing footage!
My dad left Canada on st Patrick's day 1938 with a toothbrush and 9 cents in his pocket..settled in Cleveland ohio
Should’ve kept the suspension bridge
That's how you do the news!
That's why they constructed the ice-booms upstream.
What happened in Hong Kong???
Edited by Sir Malcolm Campbell, interesting, never knew he'd have done that
The background music seems strangely inappropriate for what is happening.
Canada made it to Movietone!
Interested in Hong kong
Nice share, new friend is here
The cameraman sat in wait and that was his best capture of the collapse. Oh dear if only the spectators on the top looking down had had mobile phones lol.
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0:32 Strange enough, the music seems to be the Internationale, the hymn of the Soviet Bolshevik Party at that time...
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Did any die from this?
Yes like 4 people
It falls 1054
1954
NIAGARA FALLS,falls
Like GRAVITY FALLS LOOOOOL
Mother naature will always wing despite all our technology. (yes this was old technology at that time, but what engineers then though was safe.)
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When the actual news was reported without the Liberal bias.
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old accent
Ebbitty ebbitty, that's all folks!!!
The reason it collapse is because is not strong
Climate change lol