Japanese Earthquake (1923)

Item title reads The Japanese earthquake. Graphic pictures that tell their own story of greatest catastrophe in the world s history. Intertitle Editor s note. Editor Pathe Gazette pays tribute to Ralph Earle, his operator in the Orient who risked his life to make the pictures you now M, S of a map of Japan in negative, words appear with an arrow pointing to Tokyo, it says where 150, 000 were killed or M, S of another arrow saying Yokohama, 1400 houses burned 100, 000 These are repeated in positive. The camera pans across Tokyo before the earthquake. M, S of a busy street with people walking down between the houses, C, U of the street. Trams run down the road and people walk about. M, S of the street taken from a tram. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT