Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies (1900)

1900 · Silent film · 1 min · dir. Albert E. Smith

• Documentary

Watch now On the Internet Archive

Synopsis

This shows the heart of one of the tremendous drifts in the east end of Galveston. Hundreds of dead bodies are concealed in these immense masses, and at the time the picture was taken the odor given out could be detected for miles. The subject shows a gang of laborers clearing away the debris in the search for corpses, one of which was discovered while the picture was being taken. (Edison film catalog)

Synopsis from TMDb

Details

Director

Albert E. Smith

Studio

Vitagraph Company of America, Edison Studios

Released

1900-09-23

Running time

1 minutes

Cast & crew

• AAlbert E. Smith Director

More like this

• CAPTAIN BLOOD J. Warren Kerrigan Abridged Silent Vitagraph Feature Abridgement (1922)
• The Cavalier's Dream (1898)
• San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake (1906)
• A Railway Collision (1900)
• The Johnstown Flood (1926)
• When Worlds Collide (1951)
• The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
• The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
• The Clairvoyant (1935)
• Madam Satan (1930)