Deluge (1933) - Destruction of New York

[@djmoch1001]

Wow, considering this is nearly a 90 year old movie, the effects are spectacular!

[@noahnorman6877]

It becomes even more impressive considering that this movie was made on a budget of less than $200k .

[@zenthous9568]

@Christophe Leclair bruh what

[@Finleyboy0.]

Now it is 90 Years old

[@OALXI]

I have to admit, for 1933, this is an awesome destruction.

[@kriskaiser33]

The high expense, more astounding the sheer *time,* it took to make these scenes proves there used to be talent in hoIIywood.

[@ParasaurolophusEwan]

Me too

[@besnikzogaj9887]

@@kriskaiser33 it's long time ago of this place in New York!

[@neighbourhoodkid27]

Totally agree! Without CGI in the past, filmmakers had to work hard to give movies great effects. The result is that the effects are better than CG stuff!

[@NickTheYoungHistorian]

Without this film, there would not be ANY major disaster movies!

[@eldugar_ichthus]

Since forever, it seems, moviemakers have had the urge to destroy New York. Their argument seems to be: "Destruction is visually satisfying, and to make the strongest possible impression on Americans, one must destroy their icons. Not only once, but as often as possible."

[@1950Grendel]

The high speed cameras used to slow down the action and make the miniature effects more realistic were incredibly expensive in 1933, and there were only three channels for sound (voice, music, effects). Imagine watching this movie, then going across the street to see King Kong in the same day.

[@jetnipatteeravithayapinyo2468]

Money well spent! Time to end the day with supper at the soup kitchen

[@thomastarwater2989]

The incredible special effects were accomplished under the supervision of Ned Mann. He did such a fantastic job that the Korda brothers, director Zoltan Korda and producer Alexander Korda, hired him to handle the special effects for the British features THINGS TO COME (1936), THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (1937), THE DIVORCE OF LADY X (1938), and a few others. If there had been an Oscar category for Best Visual Effects, DELUGE would have been nominated.

[@davidkolaga8489]

Thank you. This is very impressive and I'm glad to have your input!

[@megapokekid1]

The Day After Tomorrow: 1933 edition.

[@emmanuelwilliams4957]

You read my mind. Deluge was ahead of its time showcasing New York devastated by a tsunami. Day After Tomorrow before Day After Tomorrow

[@Da.Liar-Pig]

And Also 2012 for some earthquake L.A scenes

[@jop366]

honestly, i prefer real life sets being destroyed rather than cgi.

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

Yeah cgi looks kind of ugly most of the time

[@WinslowLeach1974]

Always. Even in 2020, CGI looks fake because it can never simulate depth well. It's a cartoon.

[@leDespicable]

City destruction, yes. Those scenes of people running? No, that'll never look good with only practical effects. Combining CGI and practical effects would be the best solution.

[@blackenedwritings]

This is amazing filmmaking. Just think about the fact that this was shot nearly 90 years ago.

[@RebSike]

those miniatures are great, im curious as to how they were made, alot of them crumble and collapse so realistically as opposed to falling over like the stacked cardboard boxes in other films

[@josephmora5230]

Deluge was the first film to capture the total destruction of New York City, it was filmed entirely in Los Angeles.

[@dawnbirbeck1505]

The amazing thing is, all this is just the beginning of the film, the rest is about the survivors. As Samuel Goldwyn said: "What we need is a picture that starts with an earthquake and builds to a climax."

[@deesimonds9591]

0:40 There goes the Chrysler Building. 1:08 There goes a building in Times Square. 1:15 There goes the Empire State Building. 1:18 Looks like the spans of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges have given out but the suspension towers remain standing. 1:25 There's the Statue of Liberty. 2:49 There's Grand Central Station (or what's left of it I should probably say). Now the tsunami is destroying the parts of the station that the earthquake didn't. 4:25 There's Lady Liberty again. Now she's the last recognizable thing in the damaged city. I hope that ship heading right towards her doesn't crash into her pedestal, which would cause the statue the giveaway and sink the ship. There's probably a few other famous New York skyscrapers that I missed, but either didn't know the names at the top of my head or were too damaged from the earthquake to recognize.

[@krystiangoralski4678]

I know that it's late but I think that in 3:15 the two tallest remaining buildings are Woolworth and Equitable Building.

[@japanshungry5964]

3:16 remnents of chrysler and empire state building

[@jantyszka1036]

The Public Library gets it at 2:49

[@maverickthepoet2341]

GREAT EYE... YOUR ON POINT 👑🦁

[@bananacat4945]

3:45 the Woolworth building (without a roof) collapses

[@WinslowLeach1974]

Always wanted to see this movie (the FX mainly) ever since I was a kid. Thx uploader, this is one of the awesome things about KZbin, finally being able to see great stuff.

[@Starfleet2269]

The way the water flooded into the city and how the water washed up against the Statue of Liberty reminded me of 2 scenes from The Day after Tomorrow. But that's pretty impressive for a movie destruction scene in the 1930s!

[@cinewillp6391]

The collapsing buildings look great much effort must have gone into their construction!.

[@birdofevil7970]

This film was an adaptation of the 1928 science fiction novel "Deluge : A Romance" by the British SciFi author Sidney Fowler Wright.

[@theodenking7504]

Yes, and that was followed by a sequel entitled Dawn. Both are well worth reading. Wright was also a fine writer of short stories.

[@Raidmasterprod]

Just imagine if King Kong was up there at 1:15. "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes, it was this damn earthquake killed the bea-" (gets crushed by the insane earthquake)

[@kirbyyourenthusiasm]

Basically 2020 in one day

[@edcm926]

Magnitude 20.999 Earthquake 1:54

[@Meesmoth]

Seeing the 9.6 earthquake in San Andreas where there are still buildings standing, while this film basically destroys everything even strong structures such as the Empire State Building, I would guess this quake would be at 50.0 magnitude. Even 10.5 or 10.9 (in 2012) could not produce that scale of destruction.

[@HoveringAboveMyself]

The scale is logarithmic, magnitude 50 implies such a ridiculously large number that I don't think you were aware of that fact. Leveling NYC probably doesn't need any super strong fictional earthquake, ESB might be strong but non-seismic buildings like it aren't going to survive something like a 8.5. The buildings in San Francisco should be much stronger, they actually were build with large earthquakes in mind.

[@garyquail2347]

New York City could not survive a 7.5 earthquake due to the fact that you have a lot of levels underground underneath buildings throughout the city that are probably 10 to maybe twelve stories under the streets of New York City and to top it off too. A lot of those buildings are substandard where they probably could not survive a 5.3 shaker that would shake for about maybe one two maybe three minutes that's probably not going to happen in the future but it possibly can be.

[@shmoostead5419]

They are overdue an earthquake so it will take their minds off the Covid 19 pandemic.

[@Dari0-99]

Meesmoth a 50? Bruh the meteor that killed of the dinos was a magnitude 15 theres no possible way a 50 could do that a mag 50 would probably rip apart the earth

[@roypiper581]

Wow, I've never seen this before! Epic effects for the time. Heck, better than most of the 50s and 60s. Came out the same year as King Kong.

[@andrewwilliams2353]

Those poor model makers ! Seeing all their hard work crumbling into dust !

[@daniboy4153]

I've been looking for this scene since forever

[@ParasaurolophusEwan]

What I wouldn't give for a remake of this. Still destroying models without cgi, but instead of 1933 NYC, it would be 2019 NYC

[@SpaceHunterM]

ah, just wait a few decades. you won't need any special effects at all.

[@ParasaurolophusEwan]

@@SpaceHunterM harhar.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@SpaceHunterM hahaha

[@waveiscursed]

maybe you could remake by making it not black and white that wouldve make it better but i dont really care that no matter how bad or unrealistic a destruction scene is for me is still a destruction scene so it is still a good scene

[@Meesmoth]

Well looks like Titanic's sister ship, RMS Olympic, made a cameo appearance in this film during the tsunami scenes. Notice the four-funnel liner that looks similar to Titanic, and we all know only Olympic left in service, her career was still ongoing at that time. She was retired in the late 30s (can't remember the exact year), so the ship featured in this film is clearly Olympic.

[@BeBopScraBoo]

it's only a model.

[@leDespicable]

It doesn't look like Olympic in the least bit though. The superstructure looks nothing like her.

[@dawnbirbeck1505]

Not exact, but I thought the same as you - a four-funnelled liner with White Star colours, must be 'Olympic-class'.

[@Devthadude101]

I see TITANIC 1912 2:11 3:35 I thought the titanic sank

[@AndyHappyGuy]

Actually, yeah, it is most probably the Olympic. There were no other 4 funnel liners during that time that match the general description of that ship. The german, french, and cunard ships all had different funnels so it could not have been them, so it must have been olympic. The closest other ships I could find would be those Union Castle ships, but those ship's funnels had a darker colour.

[@fordlandau]

Very good ! The tidal wave is excellent.

[@xylfox]

I guess the special-effects-chief Ned Mann would be chief of Spielbergs Dreamwork nowadays :-)

[@josephmora5230]

This makes Roland Emmerich's disaster sequences (ID4 to 2012) seem elementary.

[@emmanuelwilliams4957]

And this was made in 1933. Deluge is precursor to Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow

[@waveiscursed]

the only thing similar is the new york city tsunami day after tomorow doesnt have a earthquake and deluge doesnt have the world freeze over nor does deluge have a bunch if tornadoes

[@MC-wc8mi]

no they don't. that's just silly.

[@DanielGrovePhoto]

Why do I giggle when I hear and see the looped people running in terror?

[@itsvoogle]

This looks way more devastating and scary than plain CGI. imagine if they combined this technique with today's technology it would make for one hell of an effect!

[@robertparnell1954]

I wouldn’t say that lol

[@zenthous9568]

This technique is way too basic however, but they could imitate it if that’s what you mean

[@TrickyPJM752]

You know VFX creators don’t care anymore when a movie from the 90s that is pretty much all practical effects looks better than the CGI in the majority of movies we see today

[@zenthous9568]

@@TrickyPJM752 uh, yeah they do. What are you talking about

[@TrickyPJM752]

@@zenthous9568 Look at She-Hulk or Black Panther compared to Independence Day (1996)

[@theaccount54]

1:14 Empire State Building 1:25 Statue of Liberty 4:25 2:51 Grand Central Terminal

[@BryanAgadzi]

Still holds up to some of the stuff I see today tbh

[@jilles1913]

I’m here because of corrider crew, this looks sick for 1933

[@AndyHappyGuy]

I like how the clips where there are people screaming and running are actually just sped up footage of people walking on the streets.

[@stefanripolli4237]

Impressionnant. Il paraît que ce film avait disparu. Quelle chance pour nous de pouvoir en profiter.

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

Fascinating to watch pre-CG practical FX at work, particularly when the art of FX was still in relatively early infancy!

[@MrIveyIsBonkers]

This looks like it would've been tons of fun to make.

[@mexstudios6753]

2:09 really like how well designed those ocean liners are

[@DP-hy4vh]

I saw this movie. It was called The Day After Tomorrow (huge wave hitting New York).

[@awesomenintendoman7054]

I gotta say, model building destruction is a whole lot better than CGI destruction.

[@V3ntilator]

I want to see this movie, but its very hard to find. This is the first disaster movie ever made, and the effects is very impressive for its time. Even some disaster movies today looks even more fake than this with its poor quality CGI.

[@54GodzillaFan]

Actually the first disaster movie was The Comet from 1910.

[@DP-hy4vh]

Deluge (1933) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJWWZnqlqZWCgbM

[@IAmJimRetzer]

Also check out the re-creation of the San Francisco earthquake as depicted in THE SHOCK (1926).

[@KlunkerRider]

@@IAmJimRetzer The movie "San Francisco" from 1936 has the best depiction of the 1906 quake

[@dragonlukasmapping805]

@@54GodzillaFan can you send me please ? :)

[@PierrePinson-gf5xt]

WOW! This is incredible. I didn't Knowles this movie!!!!!

[@blackskullz9770]

How that tiny building fall and crack like that I'm so impressed, I think building mad of from powder or something 😁

[@sheismymom]

This must have been something for people in 1933 to see looks great wow

[@MrEjidorie]

Special effects are really awesome judging from the period when this movie was produced.

[@chasformer3091]

Imagine if this had won an oscar for special effects.

[@keithsnider1958]

Man that must of been a 12 on the Richter scale!!!

[@perceblue3976]

Considering this movie is pushing 90 years ago, that would have been state of the art special effects back in those days.

[@diegovillena5802]

Incredible with mode fast 2x

[@weprin2]

They finally found the English print of this movie?

[@AffectedArea]

Wow, I didn't know about this predictive programming. And in 19-33 too.

[@bluecatky]

Farmers: We covered it! We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two! We are Farmers Bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah!

[@Sedgewise47]

😆

[@AlanCanon2222]

Wow! They went all in and did the work. I hope it wowed audiences.

[@The-Flat-Capped-Gamer]

Felix E. Feist is the early 20th Century version of Michael Bay... This is a Michael Bay preview that we weren't ready for...

[@spokanevalleyfreeway1521]

Damn, this is awesome!

[@bloxyguyreal]

Well done movie. I'm impressed

[@77PacerStudios]

I may be 32 years old and a lover of old movies, but in all honesty, I have NEVER, repeat NEVER even heard of this movie, let alone watch it... until today (Wednesday, July 26, 2023)! I do admit though, the effects are impressive! What's disappointing is that other disaster movies after this one didn't have as good effects, even Earthquake which came out 4 decades later!

[@kompuleiompekboleh9266]

It is a very disturbing scene. No one could have survive that scale of destruction.

[@anthonycaruso8443]

Many did,and they rebuit

[@kokusanandreas]

muchos planos de esta escena estan mucho mejor logrados que peliculas actuales

[@rattywoof5259]

1:33 - that must be how she finished up buried on the beach!

[@lukestertv4337]

This 90 old film is great

[@markpeters8809]

You don't know that this was the 1st disaster movie, you can't compare today's effects with back then, the acting was much better back then, no fake effects or green screen!

[@SpaceHunterM]

thank you great almighty film historian I had no idea whatsoever

[@markpeters8809]

SpaceHunterM l just know these things, my dad watched TCM and the History channel.

[@kriskaiser33]

*lol*

[@edcm926]

Mark Peters this aint the first disaster movie the first one ive heard of is from 1910

[@claush7492]

This sequence has several shots using travelling mattes, which are the film version of green screen chroma-key used in video.

[@Chadoh21]

That's pretty impressive considering the time!

[@kevmichael2064]

Who this is way ahead of it's time?...the special Effects are Great 👍

[@Elton_AniM8S]

Holy crap that was awesome

[@joshmcgootermier2301]

Wow, this is crazy impressive.

[@joshymont1291]

Honestly, this scene is much better than CGI.

[@Catmeowfs]

Yes

[@benjamincisneros6700]

epic effects !

[@walterbenjamin1386]

The soundtrack!

[@TheRelevantElephant2018]

0:34 - 0:35 you can obviously see a cut there.

[@markschildberg1667]

If water droplets get too close to the camera it can ruin the sense of scale in flooding scenes. So they added a bit of detergent to the water to make whitewater, which makes the waves look bigger.

[@runnings4080]

1:32 DAY AFTER TOMORROW

[@smithymcsmith8768]

Pretty good effects for 1933, but did they have to make the buildings out of cake?

[@horsepowermultimedia]

Greek mythology: Sinking of Atlantis 1933: Sinking of New York 2012: Sinking of Los Angeles

[@Andre11844]

90 Years ago??? Well, that is pretty impressing, good one 👍

[@ilaldkxb]

dang this is actually better than CGI, but i wonder what would it look like in the movie 2012

[@zingo2664]

kenny everett video show brought me here (1978) :-)

[@mariomason4524]

0:15 There it goes Earthquake New York 1:19 There is at Massive Tsunami New York

[@mingusbingus22]

i love times like this

[@The-Flat-Capped-Gamer]

This is probably the best destruction scene of a city in the history of media. No Michael Bay like destruction, no over the top CGI, this is pure epicness! This is 1000000x better than The Day After Tomorrow.

[@mtheblepalopYT]

Guy: All east river bridg-- Building: Ight imma collapse.

[@terryperring104]

They got it right by filming it fast!

[@bronxbearbud272]

If I was King Kong watching this from the perch of some bridge over the East River, I'dprobably shrug my shoulders and go book passage on the next boat heading to Skull Island.

[@zagranichnaja_zhizn]

I like it!

[@Fiestasantiagochuco]

Holy shit!!! :0

[@karlsonkab51]

I disagree with some comments and find it more effective than much CGI of today. Peggy Shannon gave a fabulous performance in this movie.

[@SpaceHunterM]

this celery stick I just ate agreed with me though

[@user-bf1qq1mt7n]

1933 Statue of Liberty 🗽 tsunami

[@RobertFBeers]

Way better than "2012".

[@badkittynomilktonight3334]

Jenga - Master Level

[@chicadelobas5495]

this is cool. 90 years later

[@ParasaurolophusEwan]

I wish people still destroyed models for movies

[@greeneyedwarlock882]

How have I NEVER HEARD OF OR SEEN this movie!?!? Pretty damn good for 1933.....I bet it blew minds left & right back then!

[@sebastianalejo4745]

san andreas 1933 version

[@ralebeau]

It's really a good movie.

[@williamgottlieb8723]

Those abacus generated special effects are cool!

[@dromiothedrunkard1115]

Underrated comment!

[@odnalroerrat3105]

Its like a domino effect

[@briannaheller]

Just like New York got destroy by the waterfall from The Day After Tomorrow (2004) right.

[@alissonlares2926]

Some FX may be dated, but the montage is top notch. Buy I do prefer the use of pratical FX than CGI.

[@RuchanisCool]

In 1933 NYC and NY has been hit by an earthquake and a tsunami hit the city

[@A.JCOOKFAN]

in 1933 how did they the green screen effect???

[@SicilianStealth]

My morning commute to Grand Central terminal.

[@CATB33]

How did the cameraman survive?

[@mikecloud1257]

Did the Statue of Liberty survive? The clip ends just as an ocean liner is about slam into the pedestal.

[@williameggleton414]

This movie is basically a 90 year old version of 2012!