Deluge (1933)

[CLASSICMONSTERGUY95]

What other movies was this footage used in?

I can only think of 2 - SOS Tidal Wave (1937) and King of the Rocketmen (1949)

[ballmylove]

pretty good for 1933.

[stapledtodeath]

irene ain't have shit on deluge (1933).

[witchman67]

i saw this on the big screen in 1992, but the version i saw had not been subtitled, so there was actually someone in front of the screen reciting the dialogue.

Nonetheless, it was still a good film.

[Night0fTheLivingNES]

its so cool they keep finding these lost films :)

[mississippiboy1998]

This is just wow

[axecalibore]

1 person doesn't like special effects.

[local4newsat11]

That is some googd work!

[Megablueforce]

No that is what you call destruction!

[candr]

For the time, very impressive. Considering no CG, impressive even for today.

[raydio60]

Amazing special effects for the time... unfortunately this film came out in the same year that King Kong came out, that's probably why its a forgotten film.

[MyBfd]

It actually looks quite real

[macks3123]

AMAZIING VISUAL EFFECTS,

probably cost a 1/16 of what they spend now to create "SPECIAL EFFECTS".

regardless of inflaiton.

[MrRik2]

@macks3123 According to Max Page in "The City's End", the entire budget for the film was $171,000 most of which went on this sequence. As you say, regardless of inflation, that's an insanely small sum when you consider how good this looks.

[cropsy101]

This is really good special affects for its time. Very good.

[alec2885]

amazing. 

[georgiahoosier]

Thanks for posting this clip, I've wondered what this movie was for years. In the late 70s WQXI radio in Atlanta used some of this footage for a television commercial and it's puzzled me ever since.

Another mystery goes down to the might of the internet!

[Zanwolf]

I love it.

I also love how the director went all out with this movie, completely threw almost all disasters in there, but so rapidly. Buildings falling apart instantly, waves taking out the destroyed buildings and then a massive earthquake to finish them all off.

I wonder what was running through his head;

"Well I built the bloody set, so I might as well bloody destroy it as well"

Haha, great film from a great period of time and film.

[britbabe1]

So that's where the inspiration for The Day After Tomorrow (2004) came from.

[MIGUEL2005LIMA]

2012  original.

[EduarquiRJ]

Impressive and ahead of its time in terms of story and effects [by the way, THINGS TO COME is fabulous]. Thank you very much for sharing with us this very interesting sequence from a film we need to know more.

[stephanthienel]

I think large sized very detailed miniatures in combination with cgi would look absolutely realistic!

[kenobi85]

The special effect is really....special... for a 1933 film.

[MrJoseph80]

great graphics

[pschroeter1]

Absolutely amazing! This illustrates one of my most important special effect rules. Miniatures look most convincing when they break apart in very small pieces. What's the rest of the movie like?

[Quint37]

Wow! Thats fucking amazing!

[PopeFlores]

What a great disaster sequence!

[DisasterFlicks]

OMG! This movie looks amazing!! I've been wanting to see this for years. The special effects are simply amazing, and still hold up well, even by today's standards.

[DC322]

The Statue of Liberty is still standing after a tidal wave. lol.

[DisasterFlicks]

lol. This scene in the movie inspired the tidal wave scene in The Day After tomorrow.

[leavenworthkd]

Deluge is about when a solar storm causes massive earthquakes in California which spreads across the US and destroys New York City.

The rest of the movie is about a love triangle or something.

[weprin2]

Much more frigtning and devastating than the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

[peoplescrews]

the ground is not moving at all! the buildings are collapsing for no reason

[igotbored44]

this must have been the shiz back then!

[zaturn23]

SIMPLY AMAZING considering the fx at the time, and for a city like NYC that doesn't have a construction building code earthquake proof like LA or Tokio or Mexico City (where I'm from} that's what can be expected if a 8.0 + richter, God forbbiden ever hits NYC. See 1985 MX City's earthquake and see what I'm talking about.

[keevanhotshot]

That looks exciting to see.

[MSparks909]

Poor New York is just getting beaten s#&$less

[JoeVialFilms]

Amazing! Thanks for posting this!

[coreyteen13]

Hey! at 0:57, you can see the RMS Olympic to the right of the screen!

[horrormoviefan02]

how do you know? and would the Britannic be there?

[coreyteen13]

Let's see. The Britannic was sunk in 1916, the Titanic sunk in 1912, the movie takes place in 1933, there are four funnels with a black top on each, which indicates the White Star Line design. Also, since the last of the the great Four-Stackers ended with the Aquitania in 1913, I'd say it was the RMS Olympic.

[Idjitz]

Awesome vintage footage, though a little hard to watch some of those towers collapsing from a post-9/11 perspective.

Now we know where Roland Emmerich copped his visual ideas for The Day After Tomorrow, even down to the Statue of Liberty being socked by tidal waves. There is truly nothing new under the sun in Hollywood!