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13171_7315_galloping_gertie

1940
B&W

LS of Tacoma Narrows Bridge with cars driving and people walking across. Four months after opening bridge begins to waver in the wind. Shots of supporting beams, poles, and wires, shaking. November 7 the bridge begins to shake. The bridge becomes a spectacle of waving convulsions from the vibrations. Several suspenders rip free and the bridge crashes into Puget Sound between Tacoma and Kitsap. Shots of the bridge broken in half.