Natural disasters and natural cataclysms (1927-1970)

View of an area flooded during the Mississippi flood of 1927. View of a flooded street in a city in the United States.

Evacuation of women and children from a flooded building.

People move in boats along flooded streets.

Evacuation of civilians.

Hurricane in Florida, bending tree trunks, cars stopped on the road.

Niagara Falls Bridge over the frozen river in 1938. Views of the frozen Niagara Falls.

Collapse of the bridge over Niagara.

Debris of the bridge on the ice.

Turning on the disaster warning signal.

Telephone operators at the switchboard.

A man reports a fire by telephone.

A fire engine leaving a garage.

The pilot and cameraman with a camera climb into the plane.

The plane takes off.

Soldiers of an American fire brigade heading out on a call.

View of the bay with smoke from burning ships.

A cameraman films from an airplane, a view of the port, a fire at one of the piers (above).

Invasion of flying insects in Africa.

Residents of an African village flee from the insects into the forest.

Clouds of insects cover the sky.

Collapse of canyon slopes.

A cameraman is filming.

A hurricane on a tropical coast, palm trees on the embankment bend from gusts of wind.

View of a burning building in one of the US cities, view of a street with fire trucks (from above).

A man falls out of the window of a burning building.

The cameraman turns the handle of the camera.

Burning Catholic church, collapse of a wall.

The cameraman is filming.

A fire brigade plane takes off from the surface of a river after collecting water in tanks.

The plane drops water on the source of a forest fire.

The steering wheel is in the hands of the pilot.

The plane collects water from a lake while moving.

Dumping water on a burning forest.