| Miracle In California | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1755 |
| Catalog #: | 425584 | |
| Clip Number: | 425584-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 039-102-02 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Burbank, California | |
| Year Shot: | 1966 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CROWDS: Pedestrians DISASTERS: Air Crashes DISASTERS: Damage / Aftermath DISASTERS: Train Wrecks LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, California | |
| Description: | NO AUDIO A train wreck and a plane crash, both in California, bring only minor injuries to one person. 33 freight cars derail in Burbank and a tower operator is hurt leaping to safety. A naval attack bomber crashes in Rossmoor but the pilot ejects safely and no one's hurt on the ground. Establishing shot - Derailed box cars in Burbank, California. The are scattered like toys. High Angle Shot - A crane is lifting one of the box cars. MS - Two railroad workers walking the track. MS - A Pacific Fruit Express box car derailed. MS - A crowd of people watching the railroad company clean up the mess. MS - Shots of box cars that are really demolished with some of their cargo strewn all over the place. High Angle Shot - Scattered and de-railed box cars. MS - Small crowd of people looking and watching the clean up. MS to High Angle Shot - A box car lifted up by a crane and put back right side up. Rossmoor, California: Establishing shot - Wreckage of a plane. CU - The motor laying on the sidewalk. MS - A garage that was ruined by the falling debris from the plane. MS - Huge piece of the side-walk gouged out, front yard, car and home, badly damaged. Lots of smashed up things and broken windows. MS - Man pulling one of the engines from the plane sitting on a dolly. MS - Looking out the hole in one of the building's. MS - A big hole made in the sidewalk by the falling plane and debris. . | |
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