The great San Francisco earthquake [videorecording] / WGBH Educational Foundation ; a Moira Productions, Inc. film for American Experience ; WGBH Boston ; written and produced by Tom Weidlinger.

The great San Francisco earthquake [videorecording] / WGBH Educational Foundation ; a Moira Productions, Inc. film for American Experience ; WGBH Boston ; written and produced by Tom Weidlinger.

American experience (Television program)

159375471X
9781593754716

[Boston] : WGBH Boston Video, c2005.

English

Closed-captioned.

1 videodisc (55 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

783421400696

F869.S34 G743 2006

979.4/61051

WG40069 WGBH Boston Video

In the early 1900s, San Francisco stood as a proud and flourishing symbol of America's recent conquest of the once-wild West. But on April 19, 1906, the city would experience an awesome reminder of the uncontrollable forces lying dormant just beneath the splendors of its cosmopolitan surface. Thirty times more powerful than the temblor that decimated northern California in 1989, this earthquake measured a ground-wrenching 8.3 on the Richter scale, resulting in the worst catastrophe suffered by a North American city in the twentieth century. Captured in rare, newly restored movie footage from the period and the personal accounts of eyewitnesses, The great San Francisco earthquake is a breathtaking record of nature's unimaginable might and the survivors' equally impressive determination to rebuild their city and their lives.

Originally aired as a 2005 segment of the television program, American experience.
Special features: DVD-ROM access to the American experience web site.
Narrator, F. Murray Abraham.

Camera, Michael Anderson ; editor, George Waite ; music, David Koblitz.

MPAA: Not rated.

DVD, Dolby Digital, full screen presentation.

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