| OIL MENACE HITS FRENCH BEACHES Workers clean up the beaches hit by oil pollution from Torrey Canyon. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 5009 | |
| Catalog #: | 91608 | |
| Clip Number: | 91608-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 67/32 | |
| Timecode: | 01:23:31 - 01:25:07 | |
| Location: | Brittany, France | |
| Year Shot: | 1967 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ANIMALS/BIRDS: Misc ANIMALS/GENERAL: Conservation DISASTERS: Environmental Accident ENVIRONMENT: Oil Spills LOCATIONS/EUROPE: France | |
| Description: | OIL FROM 'TORREY CANYON' HITS BRITTANY BEACHES Workers clean up the beaches hit by oil pollution from 'Torrey Canyon'. Brittany, France Pan across beaches at Brittany. M/S of beach showing thick sludge among the rocks. Pan to crowd of workers on beach shovelling oily sludge into large buckets. C/U of workers shovelling up oil. C/U worker's feet paddling through thick oil. Various shots workers carrying bowls of sludge, they tip them into a lorry (truck). M/S pan workers shovelling up thick oil into large bowl. C/U shovel tipping oil into bowl. C/U workers tipping oil into large tank on the beach. C/U girl's hands covered with thick black oil as she pushes it onto a shovel. C/U worker standing ankle deep in thick oil, shovelling it into bowl. Various shots men using buckets and other receptacles to scoop up oil. M/S of mechanical tipper about to tip it into lorry. C/U of shovel going into thick black oily mess then throwing it onto lorry. M/S pan as lorry drives away. M/S pan over beach showing seagull flying. C/U of people cleaning birds covered with thick black oil. C/U of seabird covered with thick oil. Various shots as birds are cleaned, various shots of the oil covered birds flapping about. | |
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