Host Alexandra Reeves explores how two camera shop owners with Kodachrome film captured the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse, creating the most-watched engineering disaster footage in history. From "Galloping Gertie's" rhythmic movements to her spectacular torsional failure, discover how amateur cinematographers accidentally revolutionized engineering education and turned a regional catastrophe into an immortal lesson about physics, design, and the power of being in the right place with a camera.
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