Narrated by Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham, the film begins with the sudden onset of the massive quake itself, where portions of the earth’s crust were displaced as much as twenty-one feet. The colossal firestorms that raced through the city during the next days would continue the almost complete destruction of what had been until then western America’s largest metropolis.
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 of the survivors’ equally impressive determination to rebuild their city and their lives.
56 minutes, close captioned, narrated, ISBN: 1-593754-71-X, DVD ONLY, DG9160 / $24.95
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