Video URL


13167_8908_disasters
Subjects

1952
B&W

The clip opens on a high angle shot of a man on a stretcher being put onto a boat by a group of sailors. Cut to two men on stretchers on the boat with a large group of sailors as the boat motors away. Slow tilt down of rubble in a street. Cut to some men moving debris as the VO talks about earthquakes in California. Two women, one holding a dog, reach into a fissure in the ground. Walls of houses have been removed from buildings. Shot of water streaming in, then cut to houses half submerged in flood water. More shots of flooding, one including a man paddling through the water. LS of snow-covered mountain