Johnstown Flood @ Cleveland Art Museum / L'Albatross
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This story is not about the Johnstown flood in 1936 (14 feet) or 1979 (1 foot). The 1889 flood was 35-40 feet.
I am curious how they will show the flood seeing it was from 1926.
PLEASE NOTE The film is at the Art Museum, NOT the Cinematheque.
Tickets are $22 (CMA members) or $25.
DESCRIPTION
In 1889, the South Fork Dam above Johnstown, Pennsylvania, failed, killing 2,209 people in the deadliest flash flood in American history. Nearly 37 years later, director Irving Cummings dramatized the event in The Johnstown Flood. George O’Brien stars as Tom O’Day, a civil engineer concerned with the dam’s instability and the vulnerability of the workers living in the valley below. Costars Janet Gaynor and Florence Gilbert, representing opposite sides of the social divide, are the two women who love him.
The Johnstown Flood is noted for its innovative special effects in depicting the film’s disastrous events. Historian Robert A. Harris notes that “the importance of The Johnstown Flood to film history is difficult to overstate.”
This screening includes a guest appearance by noted silent film musician Rodney Sauer, who leads a quintet in a score created expressly for the film.
EATS: The restaurant is a 5 minute walk.
More information about the Cleveland Silent Film Festival can be found on the organization’s Website
Tickets are $22 for members and $25 for non-members.
Rotten Tomatoes: 70
"Mark Bussler's Johnstown Flood is an excellent documentary about one of the worst tragedies to occur in America during the 1800s"
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