Tornado: Approaching The Unapproachable - Part 2

This was the first tornado film made by the Tornado Project (called Environmental Films until 1994) and was again reissued with the initial release of Tornado Video Classics in 1992. This 21-minute film was distributed world-wide in the mid-70s. It was made to fill a gap in the rapidly growing Earth Science curricula of that period. Up to that time, no film had treated the tornado as an object of scientific scrutiny. Many scenes should be familiar. The film starts with three black-and white damage scenes; an injured woman in Dallas (1957), people near house debris at Topeka (1966), and leveled homes from a moving car in Flint (1953). The distribution maps were constructed for the time period 1916-1968. The college destroyed in Worcester, MA was Assumption College. The volcanic firewhirl off Surtsey, Iceland was in 1964.

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[sbatncpl]

Many thanks from me as well in north central Indiana!

[vfIskullangel]

I love these old Tornado videos. :)