Synopsis
A silent Signal Corps record of the great Mississippi flood of 1927: houses swept through Illinois, families marooned on levees in Louisiana, Secretary of Commerce Hoover with the Red Cross, and Army relief.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 17 minutes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Same Old Same Old · Spuzz · 2005-09-19
Quite interesting to see this film, and then compare it to the Hurricanes that happened in Louisiana recently. ThereÃÂs a number of striking comparisons. People seem to be willing to help each other out any way they can. People seemed to have been stranded for a long time before help came (love the makeshift dwellings they made in old railway cars), Politicians touring touring touring the areas, and not really doing anything (the President doesnÃÂt come out, only sending Hoover to get his boots wet). The living arrangements, or camps, were all neat teepees, they had contests to see who had…
★★★★ · Misissippi Tover Flood of 1927 · JaByron · 2007-05-16
The quality of the film is unimportant as the silent images ring clear to the mass devaststion. For those looking for a more clear image of the glood and its impact, I suggest the PBS documentay on the 1927 flood.
★★★★ · Man adds his evil touch · indy.go.blue66 · 2019-02-12
IIRC from reading, the good leaders of New Orleans ordered that levees further downstream be dynamited which would relieve pressure on the NOLA levees although it ended up killing a few hundred people as well as destroying 1000s of acres of rich soil. Even without sound, these films tell a devastating story.
