Posted by Roland Whitfield on January 30, 19102 at 12:03:52:
In Reply to: Re: Eastland Disaster film footage? posted by Diane Giles on December 06, 19101 at 12:07:23:
: I have done some research on the Eastland. At the end of a story about the disaster in the Mon. July 26, 1915 Kenosha Evening News it reads:"Details of the grim tragedy were shown to Kenosha people today in moving pictures at the Rhode Opera House and the New Majestic [theaters} and these pictures showed the terrible struggle that people had to escape from the doomed ship."
: The New Majestic went under in the 30s or 40s; the Rhode exists today, but it's a small theater group that runs it -- no movies. And the Kenosha Historical Society doesn't have footage either. But who knows, if there was more than one copy back then, may one still exists today somewhere.