The Long Beach Earthquake of '33 interrupted the filming of "The Shadow Waltz" sequence of which movie?

edmund80

The Gold Diggers (1933). "The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, 1933 at 17:55 PST (March 11, 01:55 UTC), with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. Forty million dollars property damage resulted, and 115 lives were lost. Many of these fatalities occurred as people ran out of buildings and were hit by falling debris" "The earthquake also interrupted filming of "The Shadow Waltz," a musical scene in Gold Diggers of 1933, nearly throwing choreographer Busby Berkeley from a camera boom, and rattling dancers on a 30-foot (9.1 m)-high platform." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Long_Beach_earthquake http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024069/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBkE6TOmMEU Feb 25 10, 3:56 PM

serpa

Excellent sleuthing edmund80! Feb 25 10, 8:54 PM

serpa

Uh, this is the actual "Shadow Waltz" sequence. The above youtube clip is of the character developing the song. The neon violins are pretty cool! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ida3EDWsS_U Feb 26 10, 11:30 AM