Thank you so much for posting this! I watched this in school in 1972 in Chicago before the city changed. The schools at that time really taught and educated children at that time. I never forgot it!
Thank you very much for posting this!. I have not seen this since 1980 when my science teacher played this on the old reel projector. All the other kids hated this movie but I loved every minute of it. Now I can watch it whenever I want! :D
I was just 5 yrs old when the 1965 Palm Sunday tornadoes ravaged Indiana to the west and south of where I lived. I was terrified! When my class watched this documentary at school a couple yrs later, I closed my eyes for much of it.
@@samuelmidnight7000 They were born in 1960, if they were 5 years old when the Palm Sunday outbreak occurred. People are really getting more and more stupid by the day. (Jan Griffiths).
The city of Lubbock, Texas, was holding a disaster preparation seminar, and showing this very film. Many of the men at the conference had a bumper sticker on their briefcases: "Lucky me! I live in Lubbock!" Just as they started showing this film, a tornado hit Lubbock.
The first few seconds of the intro alone are frightening enough when you can see away in the distance the vortex extending from the sky. The power and violence of a tornado defies comprehension.
On May 11, 1970, the city of Lubbock, Texas was holding a Civil Defense meeting to discuss disaster preparation plans. The highlight of the meeting was showing this very film. As they were watching it, an actual tornado blasted the downtown Lubbock area. (See documentary "Twister!")
What is more interesting to note is that this was the first movie or film that was put out after the National Weather Bureau (Service) began issuing tornado forecasts!!
Dwight Roberts One of the first tornadoes to be broadcast on national tv was the Wichita Falls tornado of April 3, 1964...it was also the first violent tornado to hit there.
Ahh, Tornado Video Classics. I bought their three TVCs on DVD something like ten years ago. They were all corrupt on arrival (bad DVDR media) and mostly unwatchable. I emailed them about ten times to see if I couldn't get replacements and they ignored me. It's a shame. I can't think of anything I'd like to watch again more than the TVCs. Especially if they included these classic films - something I never got to determine.
I'm enjoying this. It's been many decades since I heard that beloved voice. His voice was usually the best part of school. You just had to watch a movie
much of the tornado damage in this clip is from the Oak Lawn, IL tornado of April 21st, 1967. Several local landmarks can be seen including Cicero Ave., Christ Hospital, Airway Trailer Park and businesses along 95th Street. This film was shot shortly after but Oak Lawn is never directly mentioned. Oak Lawn borders Chicago on the SW Side and the tornado did do damage on the south side of the city before finally dissipating over Lake Michigan.
I remember both the Oak Lawn and Belvidere tornadoes in 1967. I lived in Dearborn Heights MI then. We had storms at the same time, and tornado watches, but nothing more. Those tornadoes did horrific damage. Saw it on the news and read about them in the paper. (Jan Griffiths).
I first watched this on a special program that the local NBC affiliate ran. At the time, we lived in N.Indiana, and I well remember the Palm Sunday storms only 2 yrs before that as tornadoes passed both just to our south, and further to our northwest. I was only 8 yrs old at that time and was both terrified and curious-typical kid! Thanks for the post!
I remember the Palm Sunday outbreak in 1965. I was also 8 years old. My husband was born 8 days after on April 19, 1965. We had severe storms that day, and tornado watches, but no tornadoes, thank goodness. My family lived in Dearborn Heights, MI at the time. (Jan Griffiths).
My father took a color home movie of the damage that the 1953 Worcester, MA tornado did. In the begining of the film my grandparents, who my father lived with, had a cookout on a Sunday. It shows how still the air was. They were blowing air in the grill to start the fire . Then the film shows on Tuesday right after the tornado hit. It killed 94 people. It was the 20th deadliest tornado in US history.
Yeah, that was a terrible tornado. A day earlier, on June 8,1953, a tornado from the same storm killed 116 people in Beecher (Flint) MI. My dad-in-law drove trucks for Kroger Markets, and he helped deliver food to the area. He also took lots of color pictures of the damage, which we now have--2 albums worth. My wife wasn't born yet; not til Dec. 1956, but her dad told her about it.
At 1:47 I recognized, and then confirmed, that the tornado was the one in Topeka Kansas 1966. I was an eleven year old kid that day, barely a mile from the tornado.
@@wallsmartsme I've seen 2 in Michigan, and 3 in AZ where I live now. I shot a video of a short-lived tornado out in my backyard in 2016. It lasted all of 45 seconds from touchdown to rope-out. Real tornado, not a dust devil. Cloud to ground contact. It did no damage, and was going away from me over open land. AZ tornadoes are rare, short-lived, and weak (EF 0-1). (Jan Griffiths).
I'm not a 100% certain but I think that clip at 1:43 was the Palm Sunday outbreak and was somewhere in northern Indiana. I want to say it could be Michigan but I'd probably be wrong.
I was about as old as the little boy at 2:39 when this film was made. My wife is almost 10 years older than me, and she saw this movie in grade school. She was in 5th grade at the time.
@@SuperFrise Almost. 9 and a half years. My husband, who wrote the original comment, has passed away from diabetes on 6/5/2022. I use his RU-vid account though. (Jan Griffiths).
When I was in grade 5 (10 years old), it was the 1980s, they showed us a disaster video like this and they showed a volcano and bodies that turned to ash. It was upsetting. Scary. I think back now and feel that 10 years old is too young to see something like that. We didn't live in an area that was anywhere near any volcano and only sometimes in the summer had a tornado warning or 2. No hurricanes or volcanoes possible where we lived, so I don't know why they showed us that volcano stuff. I wonder if anyone else remembers such a video.
We lived about 50 miles SE of Goshen. We got lucky both on Palm Sunday, and again on April 3rd 1974 as twisters passed 30 miles to our north on that day!
The NNSL was in Kansas City, due to it being right on the main line for telephones and teletypes, and it seemed in the 50s and 60s it was a hot spot for tornadoes. This then shifted south to OK.
I think it maybe shifting back up into Kansas as Oklahoma has been dodged by severe storms the past few months as shown on TWC. Just look up the Kansas tornado this year it wiped a whole town near Kansas city metro.
@@lagalot8586 it's not leaving Norman. I live near the NWC and that whole campus. No way it would be moving after they invested a ton of money into those buildings and labs
I first saw this movie in 8th grade in 1985. It was good although dated at that point AND a year after a tornado outbreak at night that ravaged Eastern parts of my home state of North Carolina on March 28, 1984. I believe 43 people were killed, hundreds were injured. 18 tornadoes at night.
Plus, did you upload this from the Tornado Project videotapes? I have those tapes as well, and what a great example this is, although it's outdated. Great Post! ~Craig
I saw the documentary when I was in grade school-the clip I watched was of the tornado 🌪️ in Topeka.,Kansas on june 8,1966 going near Burnett’s mound! 😮😮😮😅😅
My dad was a truck driver for Kroger Supermarket back in '53. The day before Worcester, the same storm system produced an F5 tornado in the Beecher neighborhood of Flint, MI. 116 people were killed. Dad went there with another driver 2 days later, with food and supplies for the survivors. He took Mom's little Brownie camera with him, and took color photos of the damage. A whole album's worth, which I have today. Our dads got rare pieces of history. Both of these tornadoes were horrifying. (Jan Griffiths).
Now that RU-vid is a lot older and we can upload videos longer than 10 minutes, could you post the whole clip now? It's fine if it's no. I'm honestly glad someone uploaded *just* this segment alone and would rather not watch the entirety of Tornado Video Classics Volume 2 in order to watch this.
@roguegrizzly1 The tornado footage is great, but the added bonus is the automobile influence that existed back then. If the footage is boring, the cars make up for the disappointment.
I always wanted to see a tornado in real life and not in some pictures or movies but i LOVE these movies. Has anyone ever seen a tornado in real life? And if you have, can you describe it to me?
Always love seeing vintage footage. Off-topic, does anyone know what kind of car that is on the left at 6:35? My first thoughts were Kurtis Sports Car/Muntz Jet or '49-51 Lincoln Comsopolitan (which all would've been a bit old by that time), and usually I can identify about any old car... having some trouble with this one though. Almost has me wondering if that particular footage is outside the US.
Okay, my brother nailed it first guess... looks like it's a '62 Renault Dauphine Deluxe. Plate looks like it's in the US too, which would be pretty unusual... but it's a total match
I know it touched down at the Chrysler Plant on by pass 20 close to belvidere and then hit Belvidere, Illinois at the school and hospital and homes all around there.
@kevin120857 I heard about the Topeka tornado, and I guess, correct me if I'm wrong, but Burnett's Mound, people thought that they would be safe, because many thought the tornado would not make it over the mound.
never saw this video as a child..but I was terrified as a kid of tornados..then I spent a summer in Oklahoma..that cured me. for some reason I am not scared of them now.
@GINGERALER Between 5:28 and 6:18 of part 2, you see an Illinois State Trooper heading southbound on Cicero Ave passing the damaged McDonald's at 93rd Street as well as what is now known as Fox's Pizza (formerly Country Kitchen) on the west side of the street. After that, you see Christ Hospital in the background of the damage of the Airway Trailer Park across Cicero from McDonald's at 93rd Street. This is exactly where the tornado crossed Cicero Ave.
There was an old film, a video cassette I used to watch with my uncles called "Encounter (or Encounters) with Disasters." It had early footage of Tornados, Earthquakes, Plane Crashes, and I think race car accidents and etc. Any chances you may have access to this or know where to find it?
I was in Cherry valley, il when the torando hit. and I drove to Rockford to go to work, It rained and hailed so hard I pulled over. My dad had a Volkswagon and the hail broke out the back window completely and broke the windshield went through the top of the cloth roof. He was driving to Rockford too at the sae time but took a dif route. after work at 8 pm a girlfriend and I went through the crysler plant and I couldnt believe the cars that were put into the ground on the side of a hill. it really was so scarey.
It's fictitious using historical footage from several previous storms. I believe the first NOAA in-depth documentary of an actual tornado disaster was the 1974 "Super Outbreak."
@stewielove101 the earliest recorded tornado was actually in England in 1066, I think. The year could be wrong. There is a wood carving depicting it striking London, I think. Back then, they thought it was God destroying all of England.
Tornadoes are fun?....... At what point are they fun? Just before they touch down? While they're on the ground creating havoc? or when they rope out and dissipate? I've been in 3 and at no time during either of the 3 did I feel like getting out the Twister game and play.
Yeah, me neither. I've been in 2, and went through them alone (parents at work). Tornadoes are never fun, but beautiful if they are moving over open land and not destroying anything.
For me, tornadoes are fascinating in the same way Godzilla would be fascinating, if he existed. They are real, however, and scare the cowboy shite outta me.
RagingMoon1987 That clip was used in another video (Terror on The Plains, I think) and it was identified as being from the 1964 Wichita Falls TX tornado. The landscape doesn't look to be Texas to me, but not being local I couldn't say for sure.
+RagingMoon1987 Clip 1:43 could possibly be the beginning formation that ultimately became the wide twin tornadoes that hit Elkhart, Indiana on Palm Sunday in 1965. The only reason I come to that conclusion is because if you look at wall cloud, it looks like two funnels are well on their way to touchdown. There even appears to be a third funnel protruding out of the front left side of the wall cloud. But if I'm wrong, one thing is for sure: That to me was the most scariest wall cloud formation I've seen to date.
My father was staying with some friends on there farm outside Worcester,he went home for the weekend to visit his mom in ME, when that twister hit. When he returned he found out the farm was completely destroyed, and several of his friends were killed. Even now at age 90 it still hurts him to this day.
@GINGERALER: OK, you're the second person to debate me on this and I think this is where the confusion comes in. I was referring to scenes in Part 2 of this video (which was NOT released by the Tornado Project, only added as a bonus to one of the TVC videos that I own. And I found no such listing for source footage with the video or on their web page) see next comment
Sound effects. This was the 60s. Footage like this was recorded without sound and was likely home movie footage. Before the advent of home video cameras, etc there wasn`t much tornado footage available. The odds of someone having a movie camera on hand when a tornado showed up was slim.
