| Death Toll Mounts: Quake Flatte Yugoslav Town | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1713 |
| Catalog #: | 362249 | |
| Clip Number: | 362249-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 036-062-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:30:30 - 00:32:51 | |
| Location: | Skopje, Yugoslavia | |
| Year Shot: | 1963 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Aid / Relief DISASTERS: Damage / Aftermath DISASTERS: Earthquakes DISASTERS: Survivors DISASTERS: Victims LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Yugoslavia PERSONALITIES: Tito, Josip | |
| Description: | Scarcely more than rubble and ruin is left of the once thriving Yugoslav city of Skopje. Rescue teams continue to discover survivors almost miraculously among the ruins; but even so the death toll is expected to reach 1500 and the city itself, already 90 percent demolished will not be rebuilt. Skopje, Yugoslavia A collapsed building, and in the mist of the destruction a toy rocking horse. Camera pans to show more of the aftermath of the earth quake. MLS - Crowds watch as a truck pulls up to start hauling some of the rubble away. CUS - Clock face stopped at 5:17 the time the earth quake hit. CUS - A smashed up car caused from the bricks falling from the buildings. Camera pans to a VW Beetle that's smashed up. CUS - A collapsed apartment building, one floor laying on top of another floor. MCUS - Survivors sitting on the grass covered with blankets. CUS - Rescue workers carrying out a victim that lost her life. CUS - Man who survived. CUS - Rescue workers carrying out a man on a stretcher. MCUS - Men comforting a woman who survived the earth quake. CUS - Rescue worker and the military dug this woman out of a collapsed apartment building. CUS - Medical team, doctor and nurses going over rescue procedures. MCUS - Military came in to air rescue that might need a medical team to perform surgery, rescuer teams are putting patients on the plane for air lift. MCUS - Marshall Tito examine the aftermath of the earth quake. MS - Clean up crews start to take away the bricks that collapsed during the earth quake. | |
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