{"id":9132,"date":"2010-10-01T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9132"},"modified":"2014-02-17T08:36:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T13:36:15","slug":"rare-film-of-1938-niagara-falls-bridge-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/01\/rare-film-of-1938-niagara-falls-bridge-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Film Of 1938 Niagara Falls Bridge Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.wgrz.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?storyid=88898\">WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jim Grimaldi, a West Seneca, NY based filmmaker and television producer, also operates a business where he&#8217;ll take your old home movies and convert them to a modern format.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the family of a long ago local dentist named Harold Sipple approached him with a box of 8mm films, some of which dated back to the 1930&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With that amount of footage I kind of guessed there would be something in there that was kind of historical or maybe even newsworthy,&#8221; Grimaldi told WGRZ-TV.<\/p>\n<p>And indeed, between various and sundry images of Sipple family picnics and beach outings, he found it &#8212; in the form of a 32-second clip of the aftermath of the January, 1938 collapse of the Honeymoon Bridge in Niagara Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: Jim Grimaldi, a West Seneca, NY based filmmaker and television producer, also operates a business where he&#8217;ll take your old home movies and convert them to a modern format. Recently, the family of a long ago local dentist named Harold Sipple approached him with a box of 8mm films,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,54,2],"tags":[4543,4541,4545,4540,4544,4539,4542,2812],"class_list":["post-9132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-8mm-films","tag-bridge-collapse","tag-harold-sipple","tag-honeymoon-bridge","tag-jim-grimaldi","tag-niagara-falls-bridge","tag-west-seneca","tag-wgrz-channel-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9133,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions\/9133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}