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Tacoma Narrows Newsreel

Newsreel footage from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collpase. She was already known to move up in down in the wind, but in 1940, she began to oscillate due to resonance and would eventually collapse  
 
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nicoleag245 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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atleast the only fatality was the mans dog.
biologygis987 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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omg! My car!
henrilot (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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every phisic structure has a frequency if the wind that hits the brige has the same frequency occur a ressonance and the bridge collapse...sorry im 14 years old and iim brazilian ...im not sure about that but yesterday i learned about tacoma bridge =D please dont hate ...sorry abou the bad english too
AwesomBryan (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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You're spot on mate, A+!
hallj100 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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I guess Superman got there too late ... !
louisEX2 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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if u look at it in color u would notice a dog called tubby in the car. he was the only casualty and he became famous for it.
Butter89cup (1 month ago) Show Hide
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aw :(
louisandtamsin (1 month ago) Show Hide
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It's amazing! How does this happen?
magdavogelsang (1 month ago) Show Hide
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It was originally filmed in color on 16mm Kodachrome film, by a man who owned a nearby camera shop and had been documenting the building of the bridge. Many 35mm Newsreel copies of parts of the footage were made, which were in black and white, so that's why black and white copies are more common.
Zeldafan1ify (1 month ago) Show Hide
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so the dog died...?:(

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