San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2021
- Over the past month this has been one of our major film restoration projects. Most films about the 1906 earth quake are of extremely poor quality. We have let our restoration and colorization skills run free on that material in an attempt to bring it back to new life. Obviously miracles can not be expected, but by motion-stabilizing, speed-correcting, A.I. enhancing and A.I. colorizing these films, it has become more bareable to watch (at least we think so).
The 1906 earth quake occured along the infamous San Andreas vault and struck the San Francisco area early in the morning of the 18th of April 1906. The magnitude of the quake has been estimated to be 7.9 on the Richter scale. More than 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed. This film shows the tragic aftermath whereby survivors are trying to simply survive among the rubble. A few days later the army brought in supplies. People can be seen waiting in queues for food and being temporarily housed in tent camps that were erected to house about 20.000 people. Many fled the city by ferry to cross the bay to (presumed) safer regions. One remarkable thing stands out while watching this footage and that is how dignified the San Franciscans appear to behave and how well-dressed many of them still are.
The film also shows early activities to start removing remains of buildings and rubble. One famous scene shows a journey by car through Market Street right up to the Ferry building at the harbour. This footage has often been compared with another film that was shot just days before the earth quake and can be found on dozens of channels on RUclips, even in colorized 4K 60fps format.
Far more information is available on the web and especially on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_Sa...
Source: Various, including Library of Congress and Prelinger Archives.
Music: Spectacles Wallet and Watch.
![[4k, 60 fps] San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, April 14, 1906](/img/1.gif)
My family survived this, most of them anyways. My great grandfather left for work that morning and was never seen again. Being a native of San Francisco and growing up there, I got to talk to people who were there that morning. One was a fire man who fought the fire. An old woman who remember the rebuilding and all the horses that died do that job. An author noted he saw no crying or despair, people worked together and helped one another. My other great grandfather was a fisherman and he went to sea and filled his boat with fish and fed anyone who needed food, when that was gone, he went back for more.
*Please note that this is very old film. The B&W source footage was of extremely poor quality* . Therefore this film might not fulfil all your expectations as regards quality. Nevertheless, we thought we should release it in view of its historic significance. The earth quake was the worst natural disaster that the American continent has ever experienced in human history.
In *recorded human history*
No it wasn’t. The Hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas in 1906 was the worst natural disaster in US history.
Actually the quality was far better than I imagined possible. At first l thought it was of questionable provenance.
I agree. This earth quake had rich and poor alike helping to feed and shelter each other. We can only hope that if something like this happens again that people will help each other and not be peddy. Love from Marysville, California
Why so many 8s in your name?
I’m doing research with my son on the earthquake. What an absolute treasure! When I was young, I didn’t appreciate History, now I realize how much it means. Thank you for this
beautiful film/ historical documents. The Miles
family and the individuals that restored this film should be very proud!
Thank you very much!
Thank you very much for sharing this rare historical footage...
Thank you for sharing this wonderful footage although devastating it is a part of history. I was born and raised in San Francisco and it's such a wonderful place 👍
You saved these moments for ever ...
Magnificent work as always!
Who is on board on Martin Scorsense directing a movie about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. With 21st century CGI special effect. Of course a solid cast and storyline, would be a must
Through History I've only seen drawings of this earthquake. But to see it on film is shocking, because now I can see the people moving about and looking lost. Then there are some folks helping out as best as they know how. This is our society at it's best trying to put the pieces back together again!
an almost surreal journey into that awful event--- excellent work on the restoration!
My ancestors left Liverpool in1893 for a new life in San Francisco, 11 days on a ship,Then a 3000 mile journey overland, Then this happened,t hey survived and produced many grand kids,Have pictures of them in the sun ,smiling.
It's so strange watching this and knowing that everyone is this video are dead now. Everybody the horses the animals all dead. Life is just a breath here in this world and then it's gone!
lol when some of the female survivors were flirting with then SF Mayor Gavin Newsom at the Centennial event. was not expecting people from back then to be so wild
@@beerrox711 aye you gotta do what u gotta do
Amazing footage, thank you.
Sad so many souls lost to this earthquake, to see this on film after 100 years plus, remarkable.
It is estimated that about 3,000 people died.
Am I the only one on RUclips that believes that an epic movie about the San Francisco earthquake, on the scale as the movie Titanic, is long over due?
Hopefully without the cheesy love story, though.
There has already been at least one, though. In 1936 MGM released a melodramatic, highly-fictionalized cinematic account of the earthquake (aptly titled "San Francisco") that featured what were for the time ground-breaking practical effects recreating the quake/fire's destruction of the city and a leading cast made-up of Golden Age stars Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and Jeanette MacDonald. Outside of this long-forgotten piece of Old Hollywood schmaltz there has yet to be a blockbuster retelling of the '06 SF quake, which is surprising given the many dramatic elements of that event that could easily serve as creative well-springs for "epic" directors like James Cameron or Steve Spielberg. Perhaps the SF Earthquake has simply receded too far into our historic consciousness by now for any modern director to risk developing an expensive project depicting a 110+ yr. old natural disaster that has long since been surpassed in terms of loss of life and social relevance by more recent major tragedies?
@@Ryan-on5on Well It's about time, people in America get a refresher course in history 101. This story is bigger than Titanic, in the number of deaths and cost to rebuild the city. I think San Francisco was one of the 10th largest cities in the U. S at that time. I believe with the right director and cast, it could be a real money maker.
@@Ryan-on5on That one doesn't count. Who wants to see a movie made in 1936. I'm talking about an epic movie with a big buget. That wins an Academy award for best special effects and all-star cast and 2022 cinematography, that blows the socks off the audience. They could recreate the earthquake with stunning detail and depict San Francisco, as it was in 1906.
@@timmartin7664 Agreed, but I just don't think the concept would seem worthwhile to Hollywood execs in this age of big-concept multiverse Marvel films and Blockbuster franchise reboots. The last time a major studio released a film set against the backdrop of a historical calamity was what....2001's Pearl Harbor? And that was on the receding waves of a post-Titanic epic movie frenzy that brought us such "classics" as the unintentional comedy Battleship Earth, Roland Emmerich's muddled CGI mess Godzilla (1998), and Mel Gibson's "rah-rah America" propaganda piece The Patriot. For better or worse the age of those type of movies has come and gone. I hate to be a Debbie-downer, but the only kind of serious screen adaptation of the 1906 Earthquake we can realistically hope for would be a miniseries or short film produced by HBO, Netflix, or Amazon; only those streaming companies have the clout and resources to take on such a gamble.
Thank you so much for allowing us to enjoy watching this treassure!!
116 years have passed from 1906 to today the entire generation of that film no longer exists, is incredible the time and period, where technological advance began cars are already seen, very interesting.
Your film is marvelous.
The reason why a lot of houses caught fire was because the home owners house insurance did not cover earth quake damage but they were covered for destruction by fire. A match in the right place of your collapsed home allowed you to claim on the insurance.
Interesting. What is the source of this info? References please!
Most of the houses in San Francisco were built of wood. Only wealthy people could afford to build their house with stone. And even the stone houses were gutted by the fire. One historian has said that San Francisco in 1906 was "made to burn".
Want to add for viewers that this video includes the devastation of the 30 or so fires from a gas main eruption. Many buildings were made from wood as it was cheap and available but also highly flammable.
The fire was so intense that it even gutted stone buildings like the Palace Hotel and the Flood Mansion on Nob Hill. Most of the mansions on Nob Hill were built of wood, and they all burned to the ground.
Thank you for sharing. Amazing what folks had to do back then. Born and now living back in San Francisco I can just try to compare now to life back then.
Amazing footage it's like time travel we humans always look at ourselves as the apex predator but the Earth is a living organism and it could shake us off just like fleas
Wonderful amazing film and the color, sounds and film editing you did are spectacular! I've lived in San Francisco for many years and I tried to ID places/locations-difficult. The rebuilders did a beautiful job in only a few years. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Ditto. They were geniuses at that rebuild.
We are glad to see such beautiful moments, great work , nice footages
It’s interesting how there all dressed up and everything is destroyed
You must be 14 or something
@@VantageCollective Maybe 10. He doesn't even know the difference between they're, there, and their.
This was beyond the capabilities of any current software. Let's not call it colour images. There's only so much you can do when presented with base material of poor quality.
But thanks for sharing anyway. Always good to learn from history.
Even filmed color is synthetic, and subject to our own brain processing to get to the "truth". Having seen plenty of the earlier colorizing efforts, I'm exciting to see what's being done these days!
What many people do not know is: the fire that erupted after the quake spread so quickly (due to ruptured water mains, yes) but also because the Bay Area was experiencing a rather robust offshore wind (called "Santa Ana" winds in So Cal). In fact, daytime temperatures for a several days after the quake were in the 80's throughout the Bay Area (even in San Francisco) due to the warm winds.
also because many people set fire to their damaged buildings because the insurance didn't cover earthquake damage, but it did cover fire damage
I find it very strange that there are no people walking around stunned, with their few little possessions in a satchel. No one with cartloads of furniture salvaged from ruined buildings. Not one looks dis-sheveled or lost, with nowhere to go.
These people are all dressed up and out on tour in the big city that was ! They have vendors selling hot dogs and everyone is going about their business. How is it that the street cars are still running ? Buildings falling and the huge fires never touched a power line. It's like one big tourist jam !
Another thing is, there are no children, to speak of. I think I saw 3 in total. What's wrong with this picture is not that it is old, or grainy, or scratched a bit. The problem with it is .... It doesn't make sense !
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I had the same impression. All I can think off is that this film was shot weeks after the quake (because most rubble has been cleared), and probably on a Sunday in view of the clothes.
Interesting obvservation.
Cos its ACTING
planned demo
And this olden days pictures from "low technology" is another horse cart full of manuuure..."i hate manuure" lol
adults are rebuilding/gathering food; kids are playing in the park or being idiots and exploring the ruins at least thats what some survivors who were kids said in interviews.
I notice no military or police presence. Many of the children died in the earthquake, could be why we don't see them.
Goodness knows how they coped. But they dressed magnificently.
Guessing the people would be just walking around in a daze for days
17:34 is the mirror image of 3:40 , two different copies from original?
C incroyable 😢 toute ces personnes n'existe plus... Life is too short
Then to think that this could happen again tomorrow.
yup
I always feel sad when I see the past
Es verdad , siento gran admiración y respeto por todos ellos también . Que todos ellos hoy descansen en paz en el reino de Dios
When i lived there i went to some museum that had artifacts from the 06' Quake. Also the Fairmont Hotel has many many photos and objects in their lobby.
This is amazing
The women dressed so lovely back then.
With that shirt, he belongs in the front row
Thank you for sharing this. I have a search question that perhaps someone can assist. I know that there's a film made by the survivors of the San Francisco fire that showed and told the day by day events from the city widespread fire. I just can't find the film which was available here on RUclips but can't seem to locate it. If any has some insight, it is greatly appreciated it.
I have never come across that footage and would be interested in that too!
There is a movie on Yt with a drive through San Francisco from one or two days before the earthquake. Maybe its from your channel, seen it last year.
Yes it is on my channel and on many other RUclips channels as well.
It was filmed right before the earthquake. It only survived because the filmmakers shipped the film on a train to New York to be processed the day before the earthquake.
my Grandmother was there.....10 years old
its sad history being destroy.
That was so very devastating and R.I.P. for all those who died that day and everyone else who was born that day or before may they R.I.P. too.
Market Street at beginning?
Anyone else notice some of the duplicate film footage that was "flipped" and reran? Note the people standing in the line and when the wagon rolls by and the man pulling the slab by the ropes tied around his upper body. Lol. Cool footage nonetheless. The colorization was interesting.
Yes I did
Was this film shot by the Miles Brothers?
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I found remastered and colorized video on YTube from 4 days before 1906 quake from same persepective. Pairing both videos up for the few minutes to tower building in center...unbelievable the devastation. Can clearly see the Gen Arthur building on right in both for reference. This video: 36:17
Other video: ruclips.net/video/sHkc83XA2dY/видео.html and 9m20sec in other video
these old type films make the people look ghostly
what at total disaster ....just a total disaster looks like the whole city exploded......my god.
This is such a heartbreaking film to watch. I'm curious if any of these shots were taken on Market Street where many have watched the trolley (I believe) make it's way up the street just 4 days before this tragedy happened. At 27:09 , I wonder if that could possibly be Market Street. Or possibly 33:06 basing it off of the silhouette of the building at the end of the street. I'm trying to remember what that building is called, I want to say the ferry station but I'm wiru 😀 and 6y0 I wish that they were able to tell where each of these shots were taken and listed at the bottom of the screen and possibly some before and after photos. I realize that would take a lot of time to research that, but it would be really amazing to see.
A lot is filmed around Market Street
It is. Filmed by the very same Miles brothers who filmed what you describe. This takes place about 1 to two weeks after the earthquake
33:06 is Market street
Both of those scenes are Market Street. It is the Ferry Building at the foot of Market. It was built in 1896 and was 10 years old in 1906. It still stands today.
They were cable cars, not trolleys.
Sigo su trabajo, este video es otras verdadera hazaña de creatividad y tecnología , pero por supuesto 100% creación de ud. Soy fotógrafo aficionado y arquitecto de profesión, y me es difícil imaginar la enorme cantidad de trabajo, esfuerzo para llegar a este resultado que se agradece infinitamente. Desde hace tiempo veo trabajos similares y su aporte es una maravillosa experiencia, miles de felicitaciones................saludos desde Chile (Punta Arenas, Patagonia )
The film of San Francisco with Clark gable and spencer Tracey Janet macdonld was so real
What is the title of that film please?
The name of the film is, quite simply, "San Francisco." 1936. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(1936_film)@@Rick88888888
Correct spellings: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and Jeanette MacDonald.
The oddest thing I've ever seen, haunting on many levels, glad I spotted a dog about half hour mark, my god what a spooky film
This looks more like an aerial bombing than an earthquake to me.
I have to agree, the hollowed out buildings and devastation shown here much does remind me of post war bombed out cities
@@rustykuntz94 there’s similarities to the “great Chicago fire” footage if you have ever looked into that story.
A lot of the damage was caused by huge fires after the quake
@@Rick88888888 Always question the narrative. We’ve been lied to so much about “history”.
There also overview photos of the city, just whole areas being completly flat..
Wow! OMG😲
Check out Alaska, 1964. Very soon, every city in the world shall look worse than that.
There is no body alive on the earth now that was born on or living the day this was filmed our life span is so short when looking at the bigger picture
Wow😍
That was a ferocious fire, didn't leave much behind. This footage just shows how we must prepare for the next big event, the western coast is vulnerable, and fire is a real threat after earthquake.
Don't worry... the tsunami will put out the fires.
There was also a One Step Beyond true episode about this when a bell hop that worked in one of the hotels there very much predicted this to happen after he kept dreaming about it since it did.
So sad 😞 😢
All survivors later died after this disaster..
Since it was over 100 years ago, that would make sense.
So sad
Looks so much like Liverpool in the 1960s around the Albert Docks.
..........y adicionalmente , Chile es un pais con una ocurrencia de sismos enormes y habituales. Ver Terremoto de Valdivia 1960, el mayor terremoto medido x instrumentos de la historia
Need some of those flammable rocks for my fireplace.
I saw hamburglar at 39:40 to the right. RBBL. RBBL
Pensar que ninguém desta época esta mais vivo, mostra como somos insignificantes perante o tempo, e ainda somos arrogantes achando que somos importantes por algum motivo, a vida e curta demais, e se vai tão rápida, o que somos nesse palidado ponto azul!
Indrukwekkend, sprakeloos!👍❤️🤗
Dank je wel. Ik wou dat het nog mooier zou zijn geworden, maar zoals de Engelsen zeggen: "Garbage - in then Garbage - out"...
Time machine...
And I ask myself, when will James Cameron direct and produce a movie about the San Francisco earthquake, on the same scale as Titanic? The special effects alone would be breath taking with today's Cinematic technology. I predict it would surpass Titanic with the right cast. Leonardo DiCaprio would make a convincing Mayor Eugene Schmitz and Jeremy Renner as General Frederick Funston and perhaps cast Emma Watson or Kristen Stewart as a romantic love interest to some fine young leading man yet to be revealed.
Events like the San Fransico Earthquake being done in a way by someone like James Cameron would be significant and potentially life changing due to the amount of devastation and horror the actual quake caused. However studios would likely avoid it unless it was as a action blockbuster due to the fact it might horrify people especially as Los Angeles and the rest of So Cal is currently on San Andrea's hitlist. Hence why you might get a action/disaster movie like San Andrea's but not a Disaster Drama like Titanic.
However now that its been over a century and currently right now political and social division is so high, perhaps it right now is a good time to make a good drama/disaster movie with the 1906 quake. Maybe it might give some empathy back to people in the to see how utterly devastating a real life event happened to a American city and its people.
.@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent Well It's long over due. I'm a histroy buff, so when Titanic came out with it's with it's attention to detail, accuracy, drama and a great story and cast. I was over moon. The San Francisco earth quake of 1906 was equally as devastating, if not more by the shear loss of life and financial damage and most people don't have a clue. It's a tragedy that needs to be told and done right. Like Titanic. First and foremost it happen here in the U.S. which in my opinion, makes it that much more compelling. I think with James Cameron or Martin Scorsese or even Steven Spielberg stamp on it. The profits would be rolling in.
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent BTW I thought San Andrea's was a joke and didn't bother to go see or buy it at the dollar store. lol
@@timmartin7664 It's not a joke. Its a fairly decent action/disaster movie. Script is meh but that's common for these types of disaster films but the acting is fine and the movie does give some very intelligent advice in what to do during and after a earthquake.
If you want a joke. May i present to you the movie 2012. That was a joke but also was kinda a remake of the movie when worlds collide.
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent Well with that recomendation, maybe I'll check it out. The trailer was not very compelling. I prefer movies that are accurate and not over the top. Your right 2012, put me to sleep, before the movie ended.
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Произошло землятресение амплитудой 7,9 в апреле 1906 в Сан-Франциско(магнитудой ,тоесть)
@@user-on1bp5en8u مافهمت والو
Now and again I can see a flash of colours more so in the Ladies out fits.
The quality of the original footage is so poor that it is impossible for the colorization software to perform perfectly,
Crocker Mansion @ 1:20
The stone foundation for the fence is still there in parts, but now it's surrounding Grace Cathedral!
I guess they just have to try get back to some sort of reality. If you watch the earth quakes in New Zealand, Napier and Christchurch people after a while just got in with trying to rebuild their life’s!
Good thing they always rebuild for more earthquakes to break them back down again
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Alle lof voor het restaureren en opnieuw tot leven brengen van die oude films Rick8. Jammer van die muziek.... Je collega Denis Shirjaev slaagt erin om bij die oude beelden passend geluid toe te voegen. Ik weet als voormalig film-geluidsman dat het zoeken van passende geluidseffecten a hell of a job is. Niettemin is het resultaat dan wel verbluffend!! Dan komen die oude beelden pas echt tot leven....
Ik had niet verwacht dat deze film veel kijkers zou krijgen. Het is beduidend meer dan verwacht. Deze film duurt 40 minuten en kost me 12 nummers uit mijn copyright-vrije muziekarchief. Daarom heb ik niet de beste nummers gebruikt. RUclips is streng op "re-used content", dus ik gebruik muziek maar één keer, vandaar. Denis "hergebruikt" heel vaak de films van Guy Jones, inclusief het door Guy toegevoegde geluid. Eigenlijk vind ik dat niet kunnen.
Van 40 minuten ratelende karren, hinnikende paarden en paardenhoeven op keien word ik niet vrolijk, zeker als het toevoegen van nep-geluiden onzorgvuldig gebeurt, zoals bij Guy Jones. Dit vind ik bijvoorbeeld vreselijk: ruclips.net/video/hyPQSMmntb0/видео.html
Ik moet er niet aan denken om een week te moeten besteden aan dat soort activiteiten. Het is al moeilijk genoeg de muziek te timen met de video en een nieuw nummer precies bij een nieuwe scene te laten beginnen (zonder in de muziek en/of de film te gaan snijden).
Dat het ook goed gedaan kan worden weet ik, kijk maar eens hier: ruclips.net/video/9y-DA2R9ykM/видео.html
Echter de beste man is drie dagen ermee bezig geweest voor een 15 minuten filmpje...
@@Rick88888888 Beste Rick8 Als voormalig filmgeluidsman voor VPRO weet ik niet beter. Alleen al met het opnemen en later met de montage en de geluidsmix waren we wekenlang bezig. Geluid toevoegen, weglaten en aanpassen .....Ik weet niet beter. Het motto was: Een goede film met slecht geluid is een slechte film. Het is duidelijk dat het in jouw geval gaat om de oude beelden. Prima. Naar mijn mening worden de prachtige oude gerestaureerde beelden enigszins aangetast door een muziekje eronder. Het voorbeeld van Baarn dat jij zo goed vindt, hoor ik "random" dixieland muziek en dat vind ik weer niet kunnen. Als je advies of hulp wil aarzel dan niet om mij te contacteren. Groeten, Joris van Ballegoijen. Verder wens ik je succes met je werk
At 22:10 looks like soldier guarding intersection and area from looters
were the hell u see a looter
incrível
No just like to say that was traggic in what happenend, before this incident happen in 1906, it was very nice place, and great sorrows go out to the deseased.❤❤
Amazing film work, considering how primitive the movie cameras were at the time. Hand held they were heavy and had to be on tripods. Film magazines often ran off wound up springs, or in some cases hand cranked. 1905 was the year Ford began automobile production, only a few Bi-planes existed. There was no refrigeration yet in house-holds, just ice boxes, cooled by blocks of ice. Electricity existed but wasn't in everyone's homes yet. Phones were for the wealthy and businesses. Indoor plumbing wasn't universal. Even when times were better, people didn't bathe every day. In home hot water tanks weren't common, bathing required a stove to heat kettles of water. Cable cars required a coal fired engine, to turn the in-ground spools of cable. Homes were still illuminated by candles & sometimes natural gas lines, came to homes for lighting, cooking and heating.
It's really interesting that EVERYONE wore a hat back then... what was that about? Why did we stop wearing hats?
.....we stoped wearing them because hats didn't make any sense in modern life.As suits don't make any sense either and are today a mere class statement, as hats were then.
Don't you thnk suits and "cravates" are a stupid anachronism?.....
@@darioburatovich2240 well why did we start wearing them in the first place? everything was more difficult back then, why add more to it? Lol. Even poor ppl wore hats back then. Everyone had something on their heads 😂. Just something interesting to think about... not a very serious discussion.
1960s-1980s changed everything with a move to a new style and fashion, wild hair style took the place of head wear. That said, since the 2000s things have settled down to a more urban relaxed fashion. People still do wear hats but it is more practical like baseball caps to keep the heat off your head, beanies in winter to keep your head warm or if you are out in the sun or desert than cowboy or straw style hats are pretty common. You also have people that do like the higher fashion of head wear but mostly seen as pretentious/hippy but not that common. There is also the wearing of hooded shirts/jackets but it can be seen as counter culture or trying to hide identity (criminal)
Part of the reason hats fell out of fashion is it was difficult to get in and out of cars while wearing them.
@@martyrose that would be a good reason! Because cars have gotten more and more compact. Hats were worn well into the 50s too! And they were designed to be convenient enough to fit into cars.
We just cleared out my grandmother's house and this woman had 100s of hats, lol. She's almost 90 and clearly came from an Era of hat wearers. She had several hats that are virtually identical 😅. It has been so frustrating.
The terrible devastation is only part of the tragedy. All those people standing around in shock, because they are out of work, and there is no chance of being reemployed.
Please investigate how these victims were actually re-employed. For sure many must have immediately found jobs in rebuilding the city.
Well dressed...and well stinky
Even Berlin at the end of WW2 didn't look that bad !
Surreal.
are you crazy berlin was totaly flat
I was waiting for that one. Yes Berlin was really bad, some sections were still standing though.
This short film shows what was left standing = ruclips.net/video/R5i9k7s9X_A/видео.html
Here is an even better film about Berlin in 1945: ruclips.net/video/Hwy8SzVmWGc/видео.html
Something about this is just "off". Normally after a disaster takes place there's people looking disheveled, traumatized, covered in soot, rummaging through rubble, the injured needing assistance etc. The fact that people are apparently just wandering around aimlessly really doesn't make any sense. The City looks worse than Dresden did after days of aerial bombing, unless the peculiar decision to use dynamite to stop the spread of fire is fully to blame. Real intelligent strategy there.
I agree, these scenes are not completely as one would expect, especially people walking around in their best clothes, looking reasonably cheerful. One explanation is that it was probably filmed many days or even weeks after the desaster. All the fires have been put out, a lot of rubble removed and obviously no dead or seriously injured people in the streets. Some footage might have been staged, but overall I think not.
I’ve been told by my grandparents that city folk in those days dressed to hilt while out and about. It was a different time. That may have been what they were wearing when it hit?
I think since this was probably several days after the quake people were like “OK, time to just pick up the pieces (literally) and move on.” And also back in those days, people, particularly those belonging to the upper classes, were raised not to show much emotion in front of others but to just be stoic and dignified. And the boneheaded decision to use dynamite to stop the fires definitely did more damage than good, and probably was responsible for a large amount of the overall devastation. They may also have already started demolishing and clearing away the buildings that were too badly damaged to be repaired.
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I agree with everything you said. But I think maybe the dynamite idea was an act of desperation. Maybe they had the idea of fighting fire with fire. I was raised in rural Mississippi, and when we had forest fires, first we’d build a fire trail to create a barrier, then we would create a fire to meet the forest fire to burn itself out. Works like a charm. Not saying that was their train of thought, but who knows?
This footage was done a couple days to a week after the quake.
I wonder where the guy is now that was filming this. Maybe you could show him this video and he would be very surprised.
Yeah, I'll show him as soon as I have passed-through the gates of Heaven!
You do know that it has been 115 years...I doubt the person is still alive
Yeah if you opened up his coffin he'd be pretty surprised.
hahaha, this is like the 6th comment in a row that I've seen some really young person not using their brain, at all.
@@VantageCollective I know where my brain is dearie. I was just waiting for someone like you to respond to it.
Have anybody see the cloth they have on all clean ?
You are talking jibberish
@@Rick88888888 is my english so bad ,or how should i understand it ? ok , question ...then where are the injured, can you see them ?
@@marigoldringelblume331 This was filmed some time after the quake. Most of the fires were extinguished and the injured were no longer just lying on the streets awaiting help. In stead you see people walking round in their best clothes, which is remarkable too.
I wonder where everybody is going all dressed up and walking through a wasteland.
They're all looking for the FEMA tent
Don't be daft
Many people came from nearby towns in their Sunday finest to check out the devastation.
Just the inheritors strolling around after the reset
Collecting their money from the CIA I presume
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Почему люди ничего не делают, а просто гуляют?
Same reason people wear masks. Programming.
Earthquake my S!!!
It was SPACE LASERS ... right??
Geez, take off the tinfoil.
At that time, did they already know that earthquakes were a natural phenomenon or did people still believe that it was a magical punishment from God?
They'd matured past thinking quakes were divine punishment, but at the same time geological science wasn't very advanced. The concept of fault lines was just becoming well-known, and plate tectonics were decades in the future.
How is it that everyone is so well dressed & very clean looking , more like tourists than disaster refugees .... ? 😎
Because it was the style of the time for the working class?
Makes you wonder what the heck has been going on in "history".
Why? These events are well documented!
@@Rick88888888 how can it be complete been rebuild in few years when u look at the photos few years after, fasinating
There is something not right about all the smartly dressed people walking along laughing, they look like tourists. Also try and spot children…..there don’t seem to be any? Where are they all going dressed like this? All a bit strange…
@@Rick88888888 Well forged more like…..
@@marczoeteweij552 Brick and motor and wood allows cities to quickly rebuild. Its why entire cities exploded in size in the coast.
Twighlight Zone!
Your entire past has been generated by ai
If you have proof a hell of a lot of history books will have to be rewritten.
You DO have solid proof ... right?
@@Poisson4147 the buildings, wake up my friend you've been asleep.
@@Poisson4147 ps, ai is horrible with shadows. You'll find an amazing amount of blk n wht photos to be cut n paste. It would take a small army to accomplish.
@8278 Actually AWAKE. I had ancestors who worked in construction back then. They lived long enough for me to know them and understand that the construction of San Fran was *100%* within the capabilities of 19th-C. tech. Seriously - how do you think people built everything from steamships to tunnels? FFS we have photos of the Brooklyn Bridge and Eiffel Tower going up. Or do you believe those pics along with billions of other documents all over the world have somehow been magically replaced with _perfect_ fakes??
The 19th C. was only 2 or 3 lifetimes ago. Our immediate predecessors weren't living in caves waiting for someone to invent electric drills and diesel cranes. They got LOADS of [stuff] done without computers and Home Depot.
I'm the first to agree there's tons of mystery about REALLY ancient history tens of millennia ago but that's hardly the same thing.
Fire doesn`t burn walls down!
What?
@@CrispyOkra nix capice.
Sigh. The fires were fed by gas mains, the buildings had flammable interiors, AND the military brought in dynamite etc. to knock down big swaths of the city in an attempt to create firebreaks. It's not that hard to figure out.
The city should have the name Saint-Francis, not San-Francisco! This is the USA, not Mexico!
Then what do we call California?
@@trappedcat3615
California and all other Mexican names of cities and states in the South of the USA should be renamed to some English-language name!
It was originally a Mexican settlement called "Yerba Buena": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_Buena,_California
@@RyanYoungMan Lol. Why to that extent? South of US? Its a language. US has many city names derived from other languages.
@@trappedcat3615 KALIF.Ornate
What movie is this lol why is everyone dressed the same as they did at the world fair. How long will it be before we know the truth this was not a fire
No it was an Earthquake, followed by a fire! Please don't start conspiracy nonsense on my channel. Plenty of videos from before the earthquake in which you can see how decent people were dressed.
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No need to get upset Honey I live in the Bay Area I know more than you may think about it. I have no intent on starting any issues on you page enjoy your evening
what a useless stupid comment.
If you knew more than a nanogram about history, few people had what we call "casual clothing" back then. When the quake hit people pretty much were left with the clothes they were wearing or could salvage from the rubble. There were tent encampments where both the rich and poor lived together because ALL of them homeless.
And there bloody well WAS a fire after the quake. It ruptured gas and water lines. Once a fire started there was no water to put it out. The military was called in and dynamited big stretches of buildings as firebreaks. It's all documented even if you'd prefer swallowing conspiracy bs.