Originally published at: Vintage photo of a library shelf catastrophe | Boing Boing
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always wanted to know how many takes that scene from The Mummy took
video link maybe
oop, got my answer (wow):
The library disaster was done in one take. It would have taken an entire day to re-shoot if a mistake had been made.
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more info from the library itself
On September 8th, at 5:10 p.m., 18 double-faced magazine storage stacks collapse on the Main Library’s balcony. The stacks contain between 50,000 and 80,000 magazines and books. Over $12,200 worth of materials are damaged. No staff or patrons are injured in the unusual catastrophe. The Library closed at 6 p.m. and stayed closed the next day for the safety of the public. A photograph of the damage appears in Wilson Library Bulletin.
Library pages wage is $1 per hour.
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Ooooooh, deary me.
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It looks like there are two u-channel braces that ran across the top of the stacks. So however it happened, I think they probably all went over at the same time.
From what I hear, sexy things happen in the stacks… I’d like to believe that was the cause rather than malice.
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i’d guess people kept standing on the bottom shelves, one maybe got pinched, and then eventually – when it buckled – the shelf pulled the whole frame down.
i know at grocery stores, shelves are normally hung independently, so the shelf itself doesn’t become part of the load bearing structure. when one breaks you get a mess, but not a catastrophe.
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1971 is “vintage”?
Yeesh!
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More than half a century ago? Yeah, definitely
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And yet, it is… more than half a century…
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If you prefer to think of it another way, 1971 is as close to the end of WW1 as it is to next year
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I would prefer not, thanks
Also the Apollo 11 moon landing was closer to WW1 than today.
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Bads news for whoever ended up Deweying the cleanup.
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