| Japan Floods: Record Rains Bring National Disaster | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1637 |
| Catalog #: | 354984 | |
| Clip Number: | 354984-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 030-062-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:07:26 - 00:08:39 | |
| Location: | Kyushu, Japan | |
| Year Shot: | 1957 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Damage / Aftermath DISASTERS: Floods DISASTERS: Victims LOCATIONS/ASIA: Japan | |
| Description: | More than one thousand are dead or missing in the worst floods in the history of Kyushu, one of the main islands of Japan. More than 30 inches fell in some sections in a day, causing landslides that wrecked cities and towns and devastated farming areas. Establishing shot - A young lad standing on a flooded street outside his home. MCUS - Looks like a woman walking through over the knee flooded street carrying her personal belongings. MS - Four other people standing in the flooded street holding their umbrellas MS - Six people fill up a small fishing boat as one man's a pole in the back of the boat manning a long stick and pushing the boat through the water. NS - Three people in a fishing boat, one man is sitting in the center of the boat and one man is moving the boat via long stick and maybe a lady is sitting at the back of the boat. MS - Some of the aftermath due to the flood. MS - Japanese army digging through the mud looking for survivors or fallen victims. CUS - Fallen victims of the flood that have been dug out of the mud are carried away in stretchers. | |
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