When the Earth Trembled

When the Earth Trembled
Directed by Barry O'Neil
Produced by Siegmund Lubin
Written by Edwin Barbour
Starring Ethel Clayton
Harry Myers
Production
company
Distributed by General Film Company
Release dates
Running time
Three reels; 43 min.
Country United States
Language Silent film
English intertitles

When the Earth Trembled (1913) is an American silent disaster film starring Ethel Clayton and Harry Myers. The film, a short feature, may be the first fiction film to depict the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.[1]

Motion Picture Story Magazine (September 1913) published a story version of the screenplay by Henry Albert Phillips.

Plot

A mother (Clayton) and her two young children live through the 1906 earthquake.

Cast

Production

Preservation status

This film was long thought to be a lost film, with no prints known to exist.[2] In 2015, the film was restored by EYE Film Institute Netherlands from three incomplete prints from the EYE Film Institute, the British Film Institute, and the Museum of Modern Art. The restored print was premiered on 28 March 2015 at EyeMuseum.[3]

On 29 May 2015, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival presented the film at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.[4]

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