Nine Twelve: The Texas City Disaster, 1947 | Cinematic Short Film

On the morning of April 16, 1947, the cargo ship Grandcamp caught fire in the harbor of Texas City, Texas, with more than 2,000 tons of ammonium nitrate in her hold. The strange orange smoke drew a crowd to the docks to watch. At 9:12 a.m. she exploded. The blast knocked two small planes out of the sky, hurled her anchor more than a mile and a half inland, and set the city's refineries ablaze. At least 581 people died, the deadliest industrial accident in American history. A cinematic short film by Where No Light Goes. Visuals are AI-generated. Watch with sound on.