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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1661

Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies

19001 minUnited States

Synopsis

Workers search wreckage on Broadway in Galveston after the devastating 1900 hurricane. The brief actuality records the scale of the destruction and the difficult work of recovering victims.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 0:54
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Edison Manufacturing Co. · Public domain

DirectorsJ. Stuart Blackton

Historical context

The Edison film forms part of the early motion-picture record of the Galveston disaster. Its images document the aftermath rather than a staged reconstruction of the storm.

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Availability checked on September 22, 2026.

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