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What was King Vidorās first film, Hurricane in Galveston, about?
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King Vidorās first film, Hurricane in Galveston (1913), was a short film centered on the Galveston hurricane of 1900. Vidor, who was born in Galveston, Texas, personally witnessed the natural disaster as a boy and drew upon that experience for the production.12