Pathe News Digest (1936)

★★★★ · Honeymoom Bridge Collapse · Bultaco15 · 2008-11-16

The photos and moving pictures were good considering the year. One minor correction though. The bridge collapsed on January 27th, 1938, not 1936. My father was one of the professional photographers on the scene at the time and he was, to the best of our knowledge, the ONLY professional photographer to capture still photos of the collapse. These can be checked out by searching "honeymoon Bridge collapse" and looking for "Madison Sale" in the description.

★★★★ · Snow, Ice, Slow-Mo, etc · Spuzz · 2004-01-30

Pretty good compilation of clips which somewhat dies down after a rollicking beginning.. We start with the destruction of Honeymoon bridge in Niagra Falls because of ice buildup, pretty wild. Next more snow, as Maine figures the best thing to do with all the ice on the groumd is, well, to sell it! Pretty clever idea! (??) After that, A pretty scary demonstration of a new parachute which lets the diver collapse the parachute at any time, even while in the air! Which of course, begs the question, WHY? A champion retriever is then shown, we get a demo with his master. Interesting that the hunter…