Digital Library of GeorgiaWalter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards CollectionHall County Library System (Ga.)United States, Georgia, Hall County, Gainesville, 34.29788, -83.824071936The 1936 Gainesville Tornado: Disaster and Recovery provides online access to a historical film depicting the extensive damage from the severe multi-funnel tornado strike that devastated Gainesville, Georgia, on April 6, 1936. The thirty-two-and-a-half minute film, probably shot for insurance purposes, focuses on the devastation of the commercial and governmental center of Gainesville, but also includes footage of damage to nearby residential areas. In particular, it features the damage to the public square, the county courthouse, the Georgia Power Company, the Cooper Pants Factory, and the First Methodist Church. The 1936 Gainesville tornado (part of a massive tornado outbreak across the Deep South that also heavily damaged Tupelo, Mississippi) is generally regarded as the fifth deadliest in U.S. history. Extensive recovery efforts involving many local, regional, state, and national resources eventually rebuilt Gainesville, culminating in the 1938 dedication of the new city hall and county courthouse by President Franklin Roosevelt. The 1936 Gainesville Tornado: Disaster and Recovery is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the Hall County Library System as part of Georgia HomePLACE. This project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.video/mp4image/jpgenglegacy system requirements: One of the following viewers is required to watch the footage: realPlayer, Windows Media Player version 9.0 or highler, or Adobe FLASHPLAYER version 9.0 or higher.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Tornadoes--Georgia--GainesvilleBuildings--Natural disaster effects--Georgia--GainesvilleCentral business districts--Georgia--GainesvilleDisaster relief--Georgia--GainesvilleFires--Georgia--GainesvilleNatural disasters--Georgia--GainesvilleRubble--Georgia--GainesvillePublic Square (Gainesville, Ga.)Cooper Pants Factory (Gainesville, Ga.)Georgia Power Company. Substation (Gainesville, Ga.)First United Methodist Church (Gainesville, Ga.)Hall County Courthouse (Gainesville, Ga.)Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945Georgia. National GuardCivilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)United States. Federal Emergency Relief AdministrationUnited States. Works Progress AdministrationAmerican National Red Cross. Emergency and Community ServicesNew Deal, 1933-1939United States--Social conditions--1933-1945United States--History--1933-1945Gainesville (Ga.)--History--20th centuryThe 1936 Gainesville tornado : disaster and recoveryMovingImage