Summary

TO PREDICT AND CONTROL EARTHQUAKES

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: TO PREDICT AND CONTROL EARTHQUAKES
File Number: GLD-66 Beta SP
Color: Color
Type: Documentary
Year: 1970
Subjects: Aerials
Description: Color 1970 Educational film about earthquakes and the efforts of scientists to better understand them. Combines newsreel footage of historic earthquakes with interviews with scientists and others (including geologists Tuza Wilson and Barry Raleigh). 00:20:36:00 Color 1970 ws Newsreel footage of earthquake damage, color. No location given looks like Middle East. 00:21:20:00 Color 1970 ws AV, San Andreas Fault in California good shot. 00:22:40:00 Color 1970 Animation, map of the world showing shifting plate tectonics, continents moving over time. 00:23:52:00 Color 1970 ws Earthquake damage, b w newsreel footage again the location is unidentified. 00:25:38:00 Color 1964 ws Newsreel footage of the 1964 Alaska earthquake very grainy shows the earthquake in progress also, aftermath. 00:27:00:00 Color 1970 cu Seismograph readings, wavy lines indicating earthquake activity. Also at 0:34:50. 00:28:40:00 Color 1970 ws Newsreel footage of earthquake in Japan, color. House falls over hillside crumbles floods. 00:31:40:00 Color 1970 ws Newsreel footage of earthquake destruction, color. Huge masses of rubble injured man on stretcher (Latin America?) 00:33:22:00 Color 1970 vs Oil pump, bobbing up and down three brief shots. 00:34:52:00 Color 1906 ws Newsreel footage of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake b w grainy footage. Ruined buildings, fires. 00:37:12:00 Color 1970 cu San Francisco citizens interviewed on street about their fears of earthquakes. Good cross-section of 1970s types. 00:38:26:00 Color 1970 ws Quick montage of San Francisco: various buildings, pedestrians, cable car, BART train, empty Berkeley stadium, highway traffic. 00:39:31:00 Color 1970 cu Seismograph readings, lines get wavy, indicating earthquake.
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