| Disaster: 24 Die In French Train Derailment | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1637 |
| Catalog #: | 354975 | |
| Clip Number: | 354975-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 030-061-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:00:38 - 00:01:31 | |
| Location: | France | |
| Year Shot: | 1957 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Damage / Aftermath DISASTERS: Train Wrecks LOCATIONS/EUROPE: France | |
| Description: | 24 Die in one of the continent's worst rail disasters of recent years-the midnight derailment of the crack Nice-Paris Express, while passing through a provincial station. Establishing shot - Rescue workers and a charred passenger train the back end sticking up in the air. MS - What you can tell of it the main locomotive laying on its side. MCUS - The front end of a passenger car butter up the side of another. MS - Railroad workers straitening out the railroad tracks MCUS - Railroad conductors pulling away loose metal from a twisted passenger car. MS - Another train is passing the wreckage of the Nice-Paris Express and the passengers in the cars are huddled all together looking out the windows, | |
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