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Catastrophe is a 1977 American documentary film that is written and directed by Larry Savadove and narrated by actor William Conrad about natural and man-made disasters.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 33 relations: AFI Catalog of Feature Films, Ancestry.com, Arizona Daily Star, Chicago, Disaster, Documentary film, Dust Bowl, Embassy Pictures, Great Depression, Hazard, HBO, Hindenburg disaster, Hindenburg disaster newsreel footage, Hurricane Camille, Independent station, Joelma Building fire, Mount Etna, Natural disaster, Nelson Entertainment, New World Pictures, Pay television, Ray Ellis, SS Andrea Doria, The Charlotte Observer, The Tampa Tribune, Tucson, Arizona, VHS, Vice (magazine), WGN America, WGN-TV, William Conrad, 1973 Indianapolis 500, 1974 Super Outbreak.

  2. 1977 documentary films
  3. 1977 independent films
  4. Documentary films about disasters
  5. Mount Etna

AFI Catalog of Feature Films

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, also known as the AFI Catalog, is an ongoing project by the American Film Institute (AFI) to catalog all commercially-made and theatrically exhibited American motion pictures from the birth of cinema in 1893 to the present.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Arizona Daily Star

The Arizona Daily Star is an American daily newspaper based in Tucson, Arizona, and owned by Lee Enterprises.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Disaster

A disaster is an event that causes serious harm to people, buildings, economies, or the environment, and the affected community cannot handle it alone.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.

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Embassy Pictures

Embassy Pictures Corporation (also and later known as Avco Embassy Pictures as well as Embassy Films Associates) was an American independent film production and distribution studio, active from 1942 to 1986.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Hazard

A hazard is a potential source of harm.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Hindenburg disaster

The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, U.S. The LZ 129 ''Hindenburg'' (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the ''Hindenburg'' class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume.

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Newsreel footage of the 6 May 1937 ''Hindenburg'' disaster, where the zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg crashed and burned down, was filmed by several companies.

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Hurricane Camille

Hurricane Camille was a powerful, deadly and destructive Category 5 major hurricane which became the second most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the United States (behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane) and is one of just four Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S. The most intense storm of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season, Camille originated as a tropical depression on August 14, south of Cuba, from a long-tracked tropical wave.

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Independent station

An independent station is a broadcast station, usually a television station, not affiliated with a larger broadcast network.

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Joelma Building fire

Edifício Praça da Bandeira, formerly known as the Joelma Building, is a 25-story building in downtown São Paulo, Brazil, completed in 1971, located at Avenida 9 de Julho, 225.

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Mount Etna

Mount Etna, or simply Etna (Etna or Mongibello; Muncibbeḍḍu or 'a Muntagna; Aetna; Αἴτνα and Αἴτνη), is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina and Catania.

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Natural disaster

A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community after a natural hazard event.

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Nelson Entertainment

Nelson Entertainment (also known as Nelson Entertainment Group) was a Los Angeles-based film production and home video distribution company, a subsidiary of Nelson Holdings International Ltd., a Vancouver, Canada, holding company formed in 1985 by British film producer Barry Spikings and Richard Northcott, a British financier who amassed his fortune from a chain of hardware and furniture stores.

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New World Pictures

New World Pictures (also known as New World Entertainment and New World Communications Group, Inc.) was an American independent production, distribution, and (in its final years as an autonomous entity) multimedia company.

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Pay television

The pay television (pay TV), also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and streaming television.

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Ray Ellis

Ray Ellis (July 28, 1923 – October 27, 2008) was an American record producer, arranger, conductor, and saxophonist.

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SS Andrea Doria

SS Andrea Doria was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service in 1953.

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The Charlotte Observer

The Charlotte Observer is an American newspaper serving Charlotte, North Carolina, and its metro area.

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The Tampa Tribune

The Tampa Tribune was a daily newspaper published in Tampa, Florida.

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Tucson, Arizona

Tucson (Cuk Ṣon; Tucsón) is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and is home to the University of Arizona.

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VHS

The VHS (Video Home System) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC).

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Vice (magazine)

Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.

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WGN America

WGN America was an American subscription television network that operated from November 9, 1978 to February 28, 2021.

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WGN-TV

WGN-TV (channel 9) is an independent television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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William Conrad

William Conrad (born John William Cann Jr., September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor, producer, and director whose entertainment career spanned five decades in radio, film, and television, peaking in popularity when he starred in the detective series Cannon.

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1973 Indianapolis 500

The 57th 500 Mile International Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, on Wednesday, May 30, 1973.

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1974 Super Outbreak

The 1974 Super Outbreak was the second-largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period, just behind the 2011 Super Outbreak.

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See also

1977 documentary films

1977 independent films

Documentary films about disasters

Mount Etna

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_(film)

Also known as Catastrophe (1977 documentary), Catastrophe (1977 film).