Scenes Of Japan’s Earthquake Disaster (1923)

We present you some footage of the earthquake disaster in 1923 in Japan. What was destroyed and what did it look like before the catastrophe. Item title reads - Pathe News presents scenes of Japan’s earthquake disaster. Intertitle - Editor’s Note: Pathe News pays tribute to the heroism of cameraman Ralph Earle on duty in the Orient who risked his life to make the pictures you now see.’ Various shots as camera pans across ruins of a city with buildings destroyed completely or left as shells. Intertitle - ’The Stricken territory, Japan’s great metropolitan district, approximates 45,000 square miles, with a population of 7,000,000.’ Various maps showing areas worst hit. Intertitle ’Auto from which pictures were taken throughout devastated area - owing to severity of martial law, camera was concealed in bedding and bundles.’ M/S of the car with two men in it. Various shots travelling along showing devastated city, people pick through the wreckage. Intertitle - ’A waste of ruin and desolation - vi