1906 earthquake sequence from San Francisco, 1936 

Very good because we’ve long ago employed the technology to restore the oldest of movies like this one here .

The video is so scary I turned into a gossebump and was nearly scared to death

You're right. I've edited out the bits that look slightly below bar and ridiculous to a modern viewer. I would like this great scene to be taken seriously. Perhaps I'm wrong!

@@SwingSwindlers I guess you're wrong. They made the whole scene how it is. and in this very scene you see in the upper right a stick pushing away the miniature and the lady appears within the wall. so you have to delete the whole scene for its errors or you put all the scenes in as they are and as they were meant to be. me, i prefere the "directors cut".

That scene sounds horrible!

@@SwingSwindlers you're wrong .. now i want to find that clip and watch it

That most have such am emotional moment for her. Thank you for sharing. I always wondered if it was really like this.

Ruth Presti literally no one cares

Oh my gosh, that must've been emotional! Heck, this was great CGI for 1936!

@@m.o.bspazzin6699 Your typical, shady, heartless, leftist response to Ruth Presti's recollection says more about you than you'll ever know. Say, don't you have an Antifa protest or Black LIES Matter meeting to attend? For the record, I identify as Black, so don't even play your anti-Latino race card based upon my last name in your reply, you idiot.

Show some respect you careless bastard

THAT MOVIE EARTHQUAKE WAS JUST AS DANGEROUS

WHAT ABOUT THAT ROCK MOVIE SAN ANDREAS

Emmanuel Williams i agree. Better than nowadays

The editing is great!

The visual effects were accomplished by Russell Cully, James Basevi and Arnold Gillespie. They were credited as "associates" under Cedric Gibbons who was credited as production designer. This movie would have cinched an Oscar for Best Visual Effects had the category been around at the time.

Out standing

With Color

It seems so realistic the building falling apart not over exaggerated for thrills

What’s scary is, the earthquake was EXACTLY like this

i wish it would happen again====and destroy the pedofile capitol of the USA=======

@@edwardmartis4591 Dear Edgy Edgy Edgelord: The "pedofile" capitol of the USA was moved to Mar-a-Lago on January 6th, 2021.

@@ScreamingScallop , virtually NO foundation for that statement, NONE.

Yah I'd think so dumbass. What's up with these "it still holds up today" comments?

you mean 1906?

The film is from 1936. The earthquake it's based on happened in 1906.

Blew my mind when the ground opened up and swallowed people, along with details such as broken pipes, gushing out water. Also how the facade crumbles at 4:38 and a woman comes walking to the edge, EVEN though you can tell how she was overlaid with the scene, because she is overlapping with the wall she appears behind. STILL mighty impressive work. Funny enough, it all looks more real than the CGI and compositing junk these days.

Totally impressive for 2018!

No wonder it looks more real. Practical effects are real, so they look more realistic.

Totally agree. The attitude of Clark Gable towards the singer was the most rude and unfair that has been in a long time.

Corey M I know !

They had people who are actually there working on the film

I know right

good editing... movies haven't changed all that much in that area

San Andreas does that, but that’s a very inaccurate movie, while this movie is one of the most accurate movies out there

Right? Like, as silly as the plot was, that was something I loved about the movie 2012. During the earthquake scene, the camera was smooth, and everything else was moving. It's a totally different effect when you have a stable shot of cars and trees rocking back and forth. Despite what the other commenter here said, I thought San Andreas did a good job of it too.

The tornado in Oz was also well done in the pre-CGI era.

plateshutoverlock Agreed. The only good thing about Earthquake 1974 is the ending with the dam collaspe. And John Williams score.

They make a great double feature on the big screen though!

Odd, they cut out the moment where the woman running out to the front of the collapsed apartment wall (4:40)actually falls out of the building holding her child.

I agree with you about the special FX, but the fast cuts are simply good camera/editing. This movie probably influenced other directors, editors, etc. Another great film they may or may not have been the first to use transitions as part of the storytelling is Highlander, as in this film the camera would lower towards the ground and would transition to another point in time, also they would zoom into someone's eye and transition by pulling out of that person's eye by it would be a different point in time. After Highlander, we began to see more examples of these techniques. So, regardless if folks like or dislike the film, it has some great camera/editing transitions. Another great old film in Black & White is Things to Come, some of the technology it predicts are wrongly attributed to Star Trek and other Science Fiction Films and TV shows that followed.

The Towering Inferno also the same year

Just how it should be

LitnessFourthWall Epic I know

1234lavallee1 most impressive effects from 81 years ago

1234lavallee1 Well said.

You people are a bunch of suckers

@@joeconrad9147 You know nothing.

@@SymphonyBrahms I know a boob when I see one

1936: San Francisco 1974: Earthquake

This scene terrified my grandmother more than the rest. She was 8 years old at the time of the quake, and she and her mother and two younger siblings were standing in the road after they were forced to evacuate the house. They were talking to a policeman, and at that moment the ground opened up underneath my grandmother's feet , and only the quick response of the policeman grabbing her skirt saved her from falling in.

@@sodoffbaldrick3038 nice job by the cop but scary

2:26 Blackie Norton: Mary! Mary Blake: Ahh! Blackie!

I hate to even ask this question, but what happened to the people that fell into the crevice? Were they...squashed flat like bugs down in there when the ground shifted again? I can't help but wonder if that became their permanent grave/tomb.

Good for any time.

@XD张景荣 Actually, both times would be about the same, and better than during the day; when folks are one the go and often closer to tall buildings that can come crumbling down. They said, due to people either going home early or catching the World Series at work or at a near by sports bar; the death toll of the 1989 Earthquake was far lower. The Freeways back then would be bumper to bumper when the earthquake struck, so the Cypress Structure Collapse would have taken thousands of lives rather then the 42 who perished when a 14 block long section of this freeway collapsed.

@@ernestmac13 In the 1906 earthquake and fire 3000 people lost their lives.

It did in the movie as well. The Chicken Ball was an all night party and Clark Gable's character had until 6am to try to get money for bail for his employees or something like that.

@@mgenigma5 A night time earthquake would've been more terrifying. You're in the middle of your sleep, don't know what's going on, and you can't move.

How did you know that about John Hoffman? He won an award for it. He was a really talented artist but no one really knows about him - I thought.

Before release in the same year this movie The Towering Inferno.

I thought that Dinosaurs would come out of the ground from the cracks in the earth. LOL

Not just Charlton Heston, another all star casting in Earthquake is Ava Gardner, Genevieve Bujold, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Richard Roundtree & Victoria Principal.

Another reason that Los Angeles grew so fast was the relocation of the movie industry to L.A. from New York in the early 1900's.

And Kate Winslet as a newspaper reporter.

@@SymphonyBrahms I could just see her tapping away on a vintage 1906 typewriter and drivng an 06 Cadillac or Pierce Arrow

Ben Affleck as originally Clark Gable character Blackie Norton, Nicole Kidman as originally Jeanette MacDonald character Mary Blake & Matt Damon as originally Spencer Tracy character Tim Mullin in 2022 remake movie San Francisco.

Nah

2:25 Blackie Norton: Mary! Mary Blake: Ah! Blackie!

The absolute hardest part of the movie for me. Love the politics and love interest in spite of their cultural differences, but opera??

My grandmother was 8 years old, and lived on California St. when the quake happened. She said the dead horses everywhere was a memory she could never get out of her mind. She lived to be 96, and she loved to share stories about the historic events she lived through, but this was one of a very few things she mentioned about that. She just couldn't talk about it.

When first saw Earthquake as a kid in the theaters, the blood special effects were kind of gory to me but I saw the movie in sensurrand and it was shocking to me. But now Every time I see the blood scene I try not to laugh.

Another W.S Van Dyke movie including Manhattan Melodrama, Tarzan The Ape Man, Journey On Margaret & Marie Antoinette

What you don't think is cinematography is still cinematography. Prove me wrong.

3 movies about epic action disasters movies in 1974 First Earthquake director by Mark Robson & Brian De Palma with Robson also producer with co producer Jennings Lang starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Genevieve Bujold, Lorne Greene, Richard Roundtree, Lloyd Nolan, Barry Sullivan, Marjoe Gortner & Victoria Principal. Then The Towering Inferno director & producer by Irwin Allen with John Guillermin, Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman & co-director & starring Paul Newman with Steve McQueen, William Holden, Fred Astaire, OJ Simpson, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Don Gordon, Faye Dunaway, Susan Blakely & Jennifer Jones. & Airport 75 director by Jack Smight, producer by William Frye & executive producer by Jennings Lang starring Charlton Heston, Elfrem Zimbalist Jr, Dana Andrews, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Sid Caesar, Susan Clark, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olson, Myrna Loy, Ed Nelson, Roy Thinnes, Helen Reddy, Augusta Summerland, Kip Niven, Austin Stoker & Linda Blair

Raptor D.O And the fires did the rest.

...and it was rebuilt within 18 months.

The earthquake and fire destroyed 80% of the city and killed 3000 people.

😢😢😢😢😢

This was in an all night theater where people performed after the bars closed, from 2 A.M. to 5 A.M.

Moving sets elicit a better response than a room full of green screen mattes