| ORDEAL IN ALPS A terrifying accident leaves people stranded on an Alpine cable car. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5847 |
| Catalog #: | 35157 | |
| Clip Number: | 35157-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 61/71 | |
| Timecode: | 01:05:43 - 01:07:37 | |
| Location: | Chamonix, France | |
| Year Shot: | 1961 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Rescues LOCATIONS/EUROPE: France LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Mountains, Alps SPORTS/SNOW SKIING: Misc | |
| Description: | "Chamonix. Ordeal In Alps". Cable cars crash killing six tourists in Vallee Blanche. Chamonix, France. GV Hotel/lodge building in The White Valley, tourist mill about. Profile view of tourist in front of lodge. GV pan The White Valley with small airplane flying over. SV smashed car cable laying in the snow. SV parts of cable car. SV the cable car. GV mountain peak pan to three cable cars suspended above the mountains. LV cable cars. SV helicopter taking off. SV Ditto. GV rescuers in the snow, GV rescuers trekking through the snow. SV Ditto. LV building on top of peak where the machinery for the cable cars is located. SV rescued women in helicopter displaying a smile of relief. SV other tourists standing around. SV people in helicopter for descent down mountain. GV helicopter taking off. GV pan helicopter moving across the White Valley. SV people at foot of the mountain, someone holds up a newspaper. SV Helicopter landing. GV the three suspended cable cars with Christian Mollier climbing down a rope from one of the cars descending three hundred feet (looks scary and dangerous). LV Mollier climbing down the rope. SV man in the cable car terminal were the cable is being wound in. LV the cars still dangling, night has now set. SV rescuers helping woman away from one of the cars after it had been wound in. She is overwhelmed with emotion. SV another car being wound in. SV man climbing up on cable over the car. SV men removing the car from the cable. SV small boy being helped out of car. CU woman being carried out of car. All stranded were rescued. | |
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