Niagara Falls

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1985

Complete Record: various aerials over Niagara Falls, vintage tourism montage 1900-1950s--tourists take trains/cable cars, head off in 50s car, gondola suspended over Niagara, 50s couple looks down, POV trip down calm stream, stills of turn of the century tourists, silent film clip--rescue of damsel in distress, hero jumps across ice floes, stills of tightrope walker over falls, newsreel--man goes over falls in a barrel (and dies), clip from Superman--flies down to save falling boy, interview w/boy who survived fall w/only a lifejacket, honeymooners at Niagara Falls, kissing couples, weddings at falls, exposition 1896, harnessing power for electricity