When Havoc Struck - Bridge Collapses - 1978 TV series Glenn Ford
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2015
- Here is the complete "Bridge Collapses" episode of the 1978 television series When Havoc Struck. This episode contains dramatic re-creations and real footage of various bridge collapses as well as interviews from survivors. The 1940 Tacoma Narrows also known as Galloping Gertie, the 1879 Tay Bridge, and the 1967 Ohio Silver Bridge are just some of the bridge collapses covered.
I love this program! Miss you Glenn Ford you are a great narrator
I have always been impressed that in this series he took the time and effort to pronounce all the place names correctly. And saying the River Humber like the Brits do unlike an American who would say the Humber River.
Sharon Lefebvre he had a perfect narrator voice. Very soothing to listen to.
@ Sharon Lefebvre. Glenn Ford was an excellent actor and had a great narrator's voice for the "When Havoc Struck" documentary TV series. He unfortunately was apparently a womanizer. I think it says in the biographical article on Glenn Ford on the Wikipedia website that he slept with or had affairs with approximately 150 famous Hollywood actresses. It never ceases to amaze me that he actually turned down Evelyn Ankers' marriage proposal. According to Ankers' daughter, Ankers had her future husband Richard Denning (who appeared in the 1950'a movie "The Creature From The Black Lagoon" and played the role of the governor on the famous TV series, "Hawaii Five-O") drive her to Glenn Ford's parents' house to give Glenn Ford an ultimatum. She asked him to either marry her or she would go off with Richard Denning. Glenn Ford incredibly refused to marry Evelyn Ankers for God only knows what reason, and true to her word, Ankers went off with Denning and later married Denning.
Been waiting almost 40 years to see this again. Many thanks.
The Tay Bridge Disaster is the railway disaster I have always been interested in more than any other. Absolutely NO ONE survived, so the mystery of it is so very interesting.
I loved this show! It ran in the tri-state area in ‘78 on WNEW ch 5. I first learned about and saw footage of the 1955 LeMans disaster on this show..
Thanks so much for posting these. My Dad and I used to watch this every Sunday afternoon, brings back memories.
I love these programs, and I’ve been looking for them for over 40 years! Thank you for uploading.🙏🏼
Oh beautiful bridge o'er the Silvery Tay
Alas I'm very sorry to say
That 90 lives have been lost this day
On the last day of 1879
Which will be remembered for a very long time
-William McGonnagal.
17:56 - The famous "Havoc Stuck" stinger! I want to play it everytime a toilet overflows somewhere! lol
Zickcermacity 🤣 that was creepy as hell
Scared the hell out of me at the time. Still rattles my inner kid...
yes I remember it too
@@mrgobrien I was too, I thought the series was called "Disaster!"
I absolutely remember this music! And yes the same tune goes through my head whenever I see something bad happen
"In 1971 it was estimated, with the limited money available, it would take the Federal authorities 480 years to make safe all the critically deficient bridges in America." So, for the most part, they haven't tried. And it's simply good luck that this hasn't happened more often.
Incorrect. "With the limited money available at the time" of the study. Given sufficient funds the work was able be significantly accelerated over the last 50 years. In just one case in point, a great deal of money was spent on "shovel ready" infrastructure projects in order to to save the economy following the 2007 worldwide economic collapse at the end of the G.W. Bush administration.
However, we do, in fact, have a great ongoing need for investment to maintain our existing infrastructure. However, the recent multi-billion dollar sweetheart tax give-aways to the super-wealthy resulting in the most massive deficits in American history are not going to get the job done.
In May of 1978, the Westgate Bridge in Melbourne was opened to traffic...it had collapsed during construction in 1970 with the loss of _forty_ men - they had been at lunch in huts at the base of the piles. The cause has been determined to have been massive metal fatigue which occurred when an engineer chose to correct an incorrect calculation by physically bending the structure with weights.
Cue the creepy a f music at 21:21.... even now it still makes my skin crawl.
I came here to hear the background music. It always give me the creeps
@ 519 Forestmonk.... that and the music from "In Search Of...."
The original opening, was tailor-made to be creepy.
This silly use of Beethoven's 5th Symphony, was a silly joke.
this isn't the intro I remember.. I remember a shrill theme song that was really scary!
Much of the steel used in the Golden Gate Bridge was produced at the long gone steel plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, how it was transported 3000 miles back in the day, I’m still searching for it.
The musical interlude kind of kills the somber, serious feel of the rest of the video.
You mean the music sting referred to above?
I was thinking their version of "Sail Away" at 10:53
Correction- Point Pleasant, VA., not WV at the time.
Contrary to what is said in the video the Tarr steps are not prehistoric but merely date from medieval times.
wiki says either ancient or medieval
Cool
Did the Mothman have anything to do with the Silver Bridge collapse?
The winged creature on the bridge pic and the sightings are unrelated to the collapse in my opinion. Even if there were no logical explanation for the collapse, linking that pic and sightings with the collapse is pure speculation. It is an impossible to confirm hypothesis because there is no proof the pic was not staged in the first place, and no proof that Mothman exists.
A flaw in a load bearing casting allowed moisture to seep in,and eventually it rusted out and snapped
The actual cause is explained in the film and is a matter of historic record. The only connection possible to "the Mothman" is any people opt to fallaciously fabricate in their own minds.
At 6:42, Was that the voice of "Scottie" Jimmy Dohan?
The bridge didn't seem to fall faster than the fall of gravity like the narrator said.
Dennis LastName, He didn't say it "seemed like" it fell faster than the speed of gravity; he said a side of the bridge "actually" did fall faster than the speed of gravity. His point was that it fell faster than gravity alone would have caused it to fall because of the downward momentum on that side of the bridge at the time of the collapse. If you throw a rock to the ground it travels faster than gravity would have caused it to fall without its added momentum.