| 300 DIE IN LUDWIGSHAFEN EXPLOSION German paint factory blows up killing hundreds of people and wounding thousands. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5658 |
| Catalog #: | 35933 | |
| Clip Number: | 35933-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 48/64 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Ludwigshafen-on-Rhine, Germany. | |
| Year Shot: | 1948 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Crying BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Death BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Sadness DISASTERS: Explosions DISASTERS: Fires DISASTERS: Victims LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Germany | |
| Description: | See also catalog # 519028, 312596, 34217 HUNDREDS DIE IN GERMAN DISASTER LMS The smoking ruins of the I.G. Farben factory at Ludwigshafen. MS ditto. MS Dense smoke drifting across ruins. LMS Elevated shot of flattened factory section with gutted ruins in background. MS Flattened factory ruin. MS First aid party and nurses taking coffin from ruins. MS Burnt male factory worker in hospital bed. MS Woman feeding burnt worker in hospital bed. MS Interior of hospital with bandaged patients sitting up in bed. SCU Old German worker picking his way through ruins. SCU Group of workers reading notice posted near ruins. SCU Casualty board with back of man studying it in foreground. SCU Head-bandaged casualty with weeping woman relative. SCU Group of worried men and women studying casualty lists. CU Side view woman studying casualty list. MS Coffins of casualties lined up in local cemetery. SCU Ends of four coffins with boots of occupants placed outside. MS Group of sorrowing relatives coffins in foreground. MS Elevated flattened ruins scene. Slow pan through. LMS Gutted building collapses. | |
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