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The Johnstown Flood is a 1989 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim about the Johnstown Flood. [4] David McCullough, author of the 1968 book, The Johnstown Flood, [5] hosted the film. An expanded version of the film aired on the television series American Experience in 1991.
The north end of the dam abutment and the farm of Elias Unger, now the visitor center of the Johnstown Flood Museum View of the lake bed from top of the dam May 1889 view of the broken dam from the roadway May 5, 2013 view of the center section of the dam that gave way Lake Conemaugh's spillway as it appeared in 1980 Wreck of Pullman cars and ...
The Johnstown Flood (1926) by Irving Cummings The Johnstown Flood ad in The Film Daily, 1926. The Johnstown Flood is a 1926 American silent epic film directed by Irving Cummings, that addresses the Great Flood of 1889 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The film stars George O'Brien, Florence Gilbert, and Janet Gaynor. [1]
The 1889 Johnstown flood was the greatest single-day civilian loss of life in the U.S. until the World Trade Center collapsed amid the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to the ...
A modern view of the South Fork Dam. The large gap overlooked by the two wooden terraces pictured is the breach that caused the Johnstown Flood.. The South Fork Dam was an earthenwork dam forming Lake Conemaugh (formerly Western Reservoir, also known as the Old Reservoir and Three Mile Dam, a misnomer), [1] an artificial body of water near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States.
The Costlows died during the Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889, when the South Fork Dam broke, sending a ... 'They are remembered': Luminarias at Johnstown Flood National Memorial honor lives lost ...
A train headed toward Johnstown emitted a constant whine as if the whistle was stuck. As the roar grew louder, so did the wind, tossing trees around and tearing wood from nearby buildings. Then ...
The Johnstown Flood (1926) – Silent epic drama film that addresses the Great Flood of 1889 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania [214] [215] The Last Days of Pompeii (Italian: Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) (1926) – Italian historical drama film about the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 [216]