NIAGARA FALLS COLLAPSE
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- (9 Aug 1954) When the first tell-tale cracks appeared in the rock at the side of Niagara Falls, Movietone cameramen kept a round-the-clock vigil. Their patience was rewarded by sensational pictures as 185,000 tons of rock crashed down to the bottom of the Falls.
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If that happened today there would have been at least 10 people on that slab taking selfies as it collapsed.
We could only hope.
omg 😭😭😭😭😭 this is so #deep and #true 😭😭😭
@JZ's Best Friend Not when you're clueless.
Sad but true...and quite hilarious for us dark humour types!! ;)
I would stand there with the Roadrunner and watch how the other end collapses instead.
"Risking life and limb, and even cameras"😂😂😂😂😂😂
Oh come on, cameras are expensive. You can always pull some poor schmuck off the street to risk their life and limbs
P900
British humor.
That made me laugh too lol
I appreciate that line. If their camera fell in, they wouldn't have gotten any footage, and it would have been for nothing.
Back then before the advent of digital, doing video coverage "around-the-clock" seems like it would've been an unbelievably expensive proposition. Props to Movietone for having the foresight to sign off on committing the resources necessary to catch this footage.
🤔 Yeah, but in a way, I'm glad it happened... At that time, I was 54 years old and out of work, due to the effects of the great depression. Fortunately, I was hired for .37¢ an hour to manually shovel and wheelbarrow the collapse debris to a pile on the other side of the river. Since I was doing the job alone, it took me 3 whole days to clean up that entire rockfall by hand!
The people that video taped it new their was no way they could fix it in time!!! So it was just a matter of time before it took the plunge!!!
No doubt. That was my first reaction too. Miles of b roll.
Labor was cheap
@@2bigbufords "Labor was cheap"
Film was expensive.
my great grandfather was a British/Canadian realist painter..John Loxton Rawbon..he painted the falls back in 1909..back then there was nothing around just a few buildings an farms..and the falls look way different today..i still have his paintings to this day
I live in niagara falls and it sucks here now. its horrible
Some nice art, it was interesting to see the falls with barely any buildings.
Can I have the paintings
I'd love to see those paintings! Any chance of an online peek?
@@masterbondofox8982 Google the artist's name and Niagara falls, there are a few images of the paintings online
would be great if the "click this next!" links didn't cover up the best part of the rockfall......
Yup, that happens often, really annoying 🤬
@@Kevinrothwell1959 oh God it's so annoying
I was thinking the exact same thing!!
We live in crazy times, everything has to be spoiled by commercials.
Fix that with Chrome plus “Enhancer for TH-cam™” extension.
The trend to put info windows over the video before it is finished...is crude, rude, and needs to stop!
TH-cam is trying to make the ads and pop up windows as annoying as possible to make people pay for premium...
@Love it, Or leave it
Or TH-cam vanced.
@Love it, Or leave it Adblocker doesn't work to rid the ads in these cases.
Even if you pay premium that shit happens
@@talkingtina4519 I put all channels I come across doing this straight into my kill bin.
I've got an idea, why doesn't some halfwit put an advert over the last few frames?
Yeah !
That would be swell 🙄
Seriously, I'll skip AP vids from now on.
John Bennett 🤣 My thoughts, exactly
@@TheGodKingZul Well isn't it technically *advertising* for another video?
When I was a kid, this was the only way you could see stuff like this. Now I sit in front of TH-cam and watch my fill of landslides, dam failures, tsunamis, detonations, car crashes...
And... drunk hoons riding shopping carts down stairs.
Remember back in high school when you could catch teen drunk or text driving videos with the driver's smashed face against the steering wheel and the girls were all on the ground with bloody sheets covering them. Then the camera would pan to a smartphone face up on a ripped sweater with the text reading, "amber...Amber....AMBER!!!!! " Now can find all sorts of human carnage on TH-cam without having to leave the comfort of your own little snack factory.
I remember Movietone News was shown before every movie when I was a kid back in the 50's. The matinee cost 25 cents.
Those huge chunks were only the latest to fall. The mighty Niagara River has been eroding the edges of those falls for millennia. The falls used to be way farther north of that location. Periodically, the water pouring over would stress the edges and erode the falls backwards, creating a new falls edge.
Over and over.
WRONG ! The falling water erodes the BASE of the falls eventually leading the top to collapse due to lack of structure underneath .
the ground is very stratified under the river and it indeed has been "retreating" for thousands of years...
The erosion rate is much less now, since hydroelectric diverts 50 (day) to75 (night) per cent of the water.
S the Falls were once in time falling at that point
I absolutely love the music scores in these old newsreels. Why doesn't our news have epic dramatic music like that anymore?!
There's enough fakeness out there in the media, we don't need to add to it.
because news audio today is meant to hypnotize you and hype you to the point of a paranoid maniac
Too busy putting a political spin on things.
Some people like it. Some people don't. I guess it went out of fashion.
@@bneale The facts were real... the music was over-exaggerated... now the news is overblown and slanted... and the music is gone.
If this happened today, there would be 1800 shaky videos on youtube shot by crappy cell phones and the narration would be "OMG! OMG! Holy S#*@&$T!!!". And then some "world news" channel would have a video that was just still taken from other videos and a creepy robot voice.
Dont forget the whistling, like in all the landslide videos. That is a must.
And blame it on " Global Warming "
Of course, most of the videos would be shot in portrait orientation.
So good to be here in the future.
Yeah, but at least we wouldn't have to endure the Brit accent.
Imagine you had just painted those railings.
Well, in a few weeks, you'll have a new set of railings to paint. ;-)
LOL
The Real Rob Preston
Imagine you where still painting those Railings.
Love it...
lmfao!
Aaahhh, the good ole' narration voice from the 50s. Clear, concise, just enough over-dramatic.
I remember as a ten year old kid, standing on that area in 1949.
This has been happening for thousands of years. The falls is slowly chewing its way towards Lake Erie. There is softer rock under the harder surface layer. When the softer rock gets eaten away, over goes the top layer.
Under mining statement.
Clearly global warming.
@@albertawheat6832 Hey, you shy little geology joke, I see you hiding here! You're adorable.
It's so far away but what a sight it will be when it reaches Lake Erie. I couldn't imagine the size and volume of water moving when that happens
@@Bl913do you even understand how long it would take to even come half way to the lake 😅
I saw this happen.Was on the Canadian side with a group from Toronto. I believe it was the Toronto Youth Fdn. A field trip. One of the most amazing things I have ever seen. Tom Min
Please post positive proof pronto
Pics preferred
@@josephambrose2852 I was 11 years old. No camera then. It was an incredible loud rumbling noise, the like of which I had never heard. It lasted about 90 seconds.
@@sonnylapilotta1069 Dang it, just my luck. OK, I believe you. Stay safe and keep breathing !
Whoah! I often watch massive rock slides and stuff on TH-cam. Seeing almost impossibly big things move really fast like that is interesting in a weird way...
@@sonnylapilotta1069 That wasn't Niagara Falls, it was me giving you a brother.
That is really good footage and sound. Obviously remastered but don't lose it because it's part of our history. Thanks.
Back then in the 1930s newsreel films for theatre (like this one) they would shoot silently and proceed to edit sound effects in afterwards.
@CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui wow, thanks for the comment. This is 5yo now and had totally forgotten about this. I'm going to rewatch this.
@@-Untitled- lol
That was some cool footage I've never seen before. Good video ! Thanks for posting !
TedBronson1918 yeah same I had never heard about that before
Niagara Falls, falls. 😉
It's not false, it's true!
Derek Thompson Ahaha.
Though, in a way, its always falling.
JWinter99
Wow,that really kept us on edge! But it left us with a cliffhanger of when it will happen again.
WinterSkys- ii
“Reeling into the abyss” title of my unauthorized autobiography
That perfectly describes my last ejaculation into my wife.
Mannix Flinn ok, where did you hide the body??
If it ever happens again, it will be film in 4k 60fps VERTICAL.
hahah true though lol
World Star!
More like 4k aerial view via drone with a 360° view lol
And will be proof of the end of times and return of Jesus.
@@philshifley4731 .......I'm lost...and not like, 'I need God' lost...but I'm confused by ur logic...
Do you know how you can tell Niagara Falls is getting old?
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It has a receding water line.
budda-boom!
You know what the doc said to sick Niagara? You have some awfully big gallstones there.
Christiaan Baron It's a joke refering to receding hairline.
Christiaan Baron, The gorge from Lake Ontario to the falls present position took about 10,000 years. That is about the age of the Great Lakes, which were formed when the glaciers melted once the northern hemisphere started warming out of the current ice age. This page suggests slightly over 12,000 years of erosion: www.niagarafallsinfo.com/niagara-falls-history/niagara-falls-geology/niagara-geological-areas/erosion-in-the-niagara-region/
The US army stopped the flow over the American Falls to clean up the falls: io9.gizmodo.com/the-year-the-army-stopped-niagara-falls-1599363360
No not that much, 6 feet per year is a lot. more like 3 inches every 100 years.
It's amazing they had the technology to build waterfalls like that way back in 1954!
W....what??
It was a LA HA HA Link
@@hopatease1 I don't fucking get it
C.g.i.
LinkinPark4Ever1996 r/whoosh
Why don't we speak so eloquently anymore? Lol...
We stopped using opium like it was candy. That's just my guess tho.
mmmm! opium!
Mad Onion why would stopping using opium effect anything?
Cuz it sounds so gaddamn pretentious.
Frank Bowman Iol wut
I was on a vacation with my parents in Niagara Falls one week before this happened. We all had been standing on the piece of rock that had fallen down. Quite scary in retrospect. I was just six years old at the time.
The falls started 7 miles downstream and eroded their way back to where they are today over the course of thousands of years. Excellent footage of this one.
I am sure you weren't around thousands of years ago, so therefore you cannot say they started 7 miles down stream..
@@patrickdoyle9369 I didn't invent that factoid but I did live in Niagara Falls for years and was a tour guide there. The geology community came up with the erosion part and it is commonly known by residents of the area. Where are you from?
I'd like to know more about Model Ship 70.
I thought the same, that looked cool
Yeah, that looks like a flying boat without the wings.
Makes me wonder what ever happened to that boat. It'd be cool to know if it's in a Museum somewhere or a barn
Looks like a precursor to the hovercraft & hydrofoil.
dickie mellon,
It was bought by El Chapo and he used it to bring cocaine into Murica
Thumbs down for banner blocking the video !!!
Friendly FYI regarding TH-cam (and most other such software) use: the thumbs-down button has nothing to do with your opinion of a video's quality; only its content. For example, if you "like" this video, it tells TH-cam that you want to see similar videos, and the algorithm will suggest other things related to, say, "vintage" or "documentary" or "Niagara." If you "dislike," you'll receive less of such content.
This doesn't take into account the quality of the content, shitty footage, ads blocking the end sequence or anything else (unless someone decides to tag "high quality" into their tite or something); it only recommends based on what the video is about.
Was there in 1969 when they shut down the American Falls to clear debris, pretty wild scene.
I remember reading about that in the highlights magazine at our school. I also remember they talked about all the buckets of coins they gathered during the construction. Imagine most of them would have been silver too.
Wild, and quieter. And in the end they left it as it was, removing nothing from the base of the falls.
I love the way a thumbnail for the next video managed to block most of the final scene.
It's really great when the climate of the video is covered over with suggested videos.
Wow! Never in my life knew this massive rock fall occured.
From the Falls, live in Florida now. Was nine years old when this happened. Went and saw the results in the next couple of days
Bob Sit so your like 70
I'm 72 now
Gold DJ *You're
Of course, everything is still there to this day.
Bob Sit
Looks like the Canadian side, do you remember where the area is. Going to Niagara falls tomorrow, Would like to see where it happened
Never saw that shot before. Looked like American side. Been going to "The Falls" since I was a very young Frostbitten Canadian boy. Took my future girlfriend, now wife there for her first visit. 25yrs later almost got divorced there. We survived, well passed 30yrs now. Good for us. Sorry for rambling. Cheers!
Shut up you Canadian wuss. Your police officers are a joke. They eat their lunch on horseback! When will Canada realize it needs to grow a set of balls.
AWESOME! 😉🖖
The hell are you on about, Canada has nothing like that..
@Hey there lmaooo Canada is shit nothing to do it all depressing I will take awesome weather and beautiful beaches over a waterfall any day.
Wow you guys know nothing about Canada then.
I remember visiting Niagara Falls in Canada and my granddad (rest in peace) told us about how the rocks at the bottom of the American side used to not be there
Thank God no one was hurt..... Bless the Movietone reporter for providing this historic story. We need Movietone today in the 21st century
No we don't.
@@Tugela60 YES WE DO to preserve historic events and History
@NYRM1974 Footage of historic events is preserved, much more so today than when Movietone was around. People don't need to go to movie theaters to find out about what is going on in the world any more.
@@Tugela60 you're welcome to your opinion as I am welcome to my own opinion in viewpoint.
@@NYRM1974 You, of course, are free to be wrong.
Truly amazing footage. I'm surprised it is not better known
Was up last week on business, not a single person on the American side on the island viewing when it was raining after a sneaker cloud came up. It was pretty amazing to have the place to myself as the roar of the falls permeated the air, and the rain fell.
BTW, no ponchos for sale... got lucky and the maintenance guy gave me a nice pink one he had stashed somewhere.
Go off season, and take your own rain gear.
that's freakin' awesome! How is it in my 56 years I've NEVER seen this before!?!?
It happened before you were alive. Thats how you missed it. You couldn't help it.
@@Wa3ypx you think your commentary on something I said 4 years ago is pithy and ewrudite, don't you?
@@havocproltd That would be "erudite"
@@Wa3ypx yeah, I shouldn't type with 3 martinis on board. Spelling DOES count but let's face it, this is merely a typo and you're still, well, who knows....
@@havocproltd hahahahaha.
My Dad, when he was a young man, worked at the souvenir shop at the bottom of the Falls. This rock slide destroyed the souvenir shop. I remember him telling me that he got out just hours before the slide and he witnessed the event.
Wow he was lucky and blessed to have gotten out. There was also a rock broke off and destroyed the ticket booth on the docks. I also worked at the Maid of the Mist it’s fascinating and Majestic the falls. It’s exhilarating to be there it has its own energy with a rainbow everyday! Love it. 😊🌈❤️💋
@@joannmaracle2672 Yes Joann, the Falls and the Niagara Gorge are fantastic. As a child my friends and I would escape the city in the summer and play/hang out/explore the Falls and in the Gorge. From Goat Island to Devils Hole/Niagara Power Plant It was always a new adventure and never seem to get old.
When we would climb the gorge walls I remember seeing sea horse fossils and sea shells in some of the ground layers.
@@patentexperts1675 Good for you it’s a wonderful place. I love the Gorge and the Devil’s Hole and the power authority. Lots of hiking and trails beautiful scenery.
My Mom and Dad went to Niagra Falls in the late 1940s when the tour boat would take passengers behind the American Falls. I think you can still see what it looked like before the collapse in the Marilyn Monroe movie "Niagra", 1953.
A commendable coverage for the time.
Boy! The TH-cam algorithm sure is weird! I'd like to imagine one person searched this video out, shared it and now we're all here...
Honey I wonder why the Niagra Falls tour was half price today?
The usage of words and the narration style of the speaker made it sound more interesting !
Amazing footage! I'd never heard about this until just now.
I'm a bit of a history buff, but I wasn't aware of this slide at Niagra Falls...killer footage. I'll have to investigate this further.
@Nomen Clature He was standing there investigating when the next slide occurred. Oops!
Back when news was just telling us what happened through the lens an objective news person not someone with an agenda. Nice
Cozumel Girl Just like the news should. Not bias garbage like CNN, Fox news, Guardian, or the daily mail. All bias rubbish! TH-camrs thankfully showing these fools how its done. Keep it up boys!
Wake up sheeple, this guy's an obvious shill for the notoriously corrupt United Courageous Cameramen's Union.
I think this is more of a documentary? Oh wait! Didnt they show these commercial like stories in a theater before a movie?
@@AngelOfMusic20 Yup, and I believe these were called "newsreels."
Yep. If this same story were reported today I bet the reporting would be asking who should be held accountable for the damage to public property, or how some agency failed in their handling of this.
This has gotta be one.of the Loudest videos on TH-cam, wasn't expecting it and now my ears are bleeding. What a twist!
Love these old news reels!!!!! More More More!!! LOL
that homie, he's my niagara.
Awesome, this is only 50 miles from where Ive lived all my life
Wide World of Trains nyc to know that...u r really lucky
Only about 3 miles from where ive lived all my life
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For their time,They did well to capture such a spectacle!!.
Thats really cool someone had the insight to record this, here it is 2022
No matter how amazing there’s only the same like button to push
(O:49): "RISKING LIFE AND LIMB--AND CAMERAS, TOO!!"... Love how cameras are JUST AS IMPORTANT as the humans behind 'em, to this fellow... COOL FOOTAGE, tho'!
i know, and look at their shitty cameras, i would have thrown them off the cliff.
No reason for the lives and limbs to be there if the cameras aren't there. Filming the event was the only reason the camera operators were in danger so in a sense the cameras were as important.
thv2101 don't forget at 1:06 "These news reals are some of the finest
Because cameras were extremely expensive at the time.
those cameras are shit, terrible quality
😮the couple standing behind the cracks....
back when people still had balls. No floor filming here, just pure professionalism.
Fewer lawyers!
They also didn't have the close up lenses we have today. Also, they only got as close as they were allowed. They may have had "balls", but they also had brains.
dont ya just love the music from back then.
Almost enjoyed the comments better than the film! Lot's of funny people out there! Thanks for making me laugh!
Thanks for the thumbnails over the footage.
Plastering screen with links at the dramatic moment of collapse, obliterating the viewer's screen will not earn any respect or subscribers. Thumbs down, and never watching your shows. Do not disrespect viewers with greedy links plastered over content.
What
The background music is so Alfred Hitchcock
The use of adjectives and adverbs is breathtakingly phenomenal.
WOWIE!!! SEE??? EARTH CHANGES CONSTANTLY!!! FASCINATING!!! WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE!!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!!
And the joke THEN was, for all those folk who had declared to their sweetheart, "I'll be yours till Niagra falls", had an out. LOL
Where was that lazy sod superman
TheGodParticle yeah brov, you got a like on that. Thinking the same.
That was really impressive.
Such a dramatic scene with the music and the guy talking
Love Niagara Falls. My whole family lives there. I'm on the West Coast but love going back to visit and taking a ride on the Maid of the Mist and the gondola that goes over the gorge.
i took a pee over the railing into the water=:)
Brought it all back for me visiting Niagara in 2000. I was on the Canadian side looking over the fence at the waters hurtling past me above the falls. Suddenly the sight started to make me feel physically sick and I had to turn away. Anyone else have that experience?
I would never get close enough to find out. Niagara terrifies me.
Yes, I went in the 70s and I do remember standing at the fence with all that water right there. So close! It was terrifying.
Those people sitting next to the crack was a nice touch. Today they would have required extensive counseling and a therapy dog.
Love those old Movietone newsreels.
Love the plum voice. My, how times have changed.
This must have been scary as heel to watch on site.
It’s not an abyss. It’s not a bottomless chasm.
Camera lives matters
You freaking read my mind.
LOL!!
+Ann Oynmous
Well apparently not there still too many potato videos floating around.
its not about you...ITS ABOUT BLM...its about fathers neverseeing their sons again, mothers babies being killed, our brothers not coming home...you "making fun" of a real problem in this country does make you look like an idiot...grow up
@stickloaf You're racist.
I love how they used Disney-villain music on this!!
I LOVE THIS KIND OF VINTAGE VIDEOS THEY REMIND ME OF FALLOUT 4
Good grief! It raised the hairs on the back of my neck. I was worried for the people in the frame at this film clip's beginning.
Slowly I turned, step by step inch by inch.
calvin coleman Hey Moe!!!
th-cam.com/video/VuBtURtFNX8/w-d-xo.html
Abbott & Costello! And Lucy!
@@janicevanhorn618 ??
Classic!!
People used to barrel over the falls...after this happened the bottom was shattering rock....
Lady pilliwick People barrel over the Horseshoe Falls, since the talus is much less severe and dramatic than on the American Falls. It's always been like this.
Truly incredible footage.
We were there the week before this. That was where we were standing. Just to the right of it had been marking to stay out. The last that I heard, it is still there.🙀
Dear TH-cam - PLEASE, FOR ALL THAT'S RIGHT AND PROPER - STOP - ALLOWING - 'PREVIEW' VIDEOS (in clickable boxes) - APPEARING - OVER - UNFINISHED - VIDEOS!!!!!
This is way cool. Historic documentation.
Why is there so many thumbs down? Lol🤣🤣🤣when I saw all the thumbs down I'm not gonna lie I laughed so hard I peed a little...bc why thumbs down this epic 50s clip
I remember this very well. I was 11 years old. Saw this footage on our grade school newsreel service.
What year was this?
@@justme-dw9oj 1954
I remember Movietone News. In the movie theaters of the '40's to early '60's, we had 2 movies, Movietone News, coming attractions and a cartoon. Sometimes even a short.
Water always wins.
Yes it does. I sailed in the Navy for a few years and I trust Mother Nature even less than I trust Donald Dump.
no lol we could have easily stopped the flow if we wanted to
Fracking........definitely caused by fracking. LOL
No fracking way
I'm sure this has happened thousands of times over the millions of years the falls have been around.
Thearmorcav Niagara Falls is roughly 12,000 years old.
I don't know, I have not lived for thousands of years, I do know when you Google "Niagara Falls" some pages say "12,000 years old" and some say "At Least" 12,000 years old. When it comes to the earth its hard to say. So ill say this, "I have no idea when it formed was it 12k or 50k? What I do know is I have no Clue and "Paddy O'Connal has no clue LMAO!!!
Niagara Falls is geologic "nick" point. Nature abhors waterfalls. Given enough time a waterfall will travel up a river, stream, etc. until it is level with with the existing elevation.
Probably why it's shaped the way it is.
Thearmorcav hence why I used to the roughly before the 12000 years part. And I'm Paddy O'Lantern, Paddy O'Connell is my uncle.
I can’t get over how that couple just stood there as cracks were forming, yikes!
It's crazy I live 10 minutes away and don't appreciate it's beauty
It's quite interesting for ten minutes. Then you get hungry.
So if the water is falling off of the rock as it falls does that make it a waterfall^2 ?
Man, they don't make news announcers like they use to
I was born in 1954, the same night they told me about the collapse... but I honestly do not remember...
me neither; i just learned about it now, at 65....
It's hard to remember things people tell you on the day you are born.
My father was a youngster living in NF at that time. He said the sound was heard all over and option could feel the ground shake. Pretty cool!
And you put ads over the interesting bit WHY ???????
Oh, the humanity...........
Hoi4 reference?
@@RadX_98 nope, Hindenberg.
Oh, the huge manatee..........
The river elevation below the falls probably dropped causing the river to erode up to the base of the falls and eventually a chunk of the falls went too
No, it is caused by the mist from the falls eating away the underlying shales, causing the limestone cap rock to collapse.