1926HURRICANE.COM
Moving-image archive
Film & photograph archive
1926 media context
Moving pictures and airplanes were part of the modern world arriving.
Film let distant audiences see disaster, while aerial views gave planners and promoters a new perspective on urban growth.
Florida Memory: first air-mail plane out of Miami · FAA: early commercial aviation.
Primary motion-picture sources
Period footage from 1926
Contemporary moving images and home movies.
Later interpretation
Modern documentaries & colorized presentations
Film & photograph source catalog
The cards below preserve the deeper visual research trail, including institutional photograph collections and individual source records. Each record links back to its repository.
The Pensacola newsreel catalog lists September 1, 1926, but states that the exact day is unknown. The Great Miami Hurricane reached the Florida–Alabama border on September 20. The film’s exact date and attribution to that storm remain unconfirmed.