| Spring Havoc: Thaw Triggers Landslide In Japan | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1709 |
| Catalog #: | 425188 | |
| Clip Number: | 425188-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 036-025-02 | |
| Timecode: | 00:04:19 - 00:05:45 | |
| Location: | Nou, Japan | |
| Year Shot: | 1963 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CULTURAL GROUPS: Japanese DISASTERS: Landslides DISASTERS: Rescues DISASTERS: Train Wrecks LOCATIONS/ASIA: Japan | |
| Description: | tape has some damage. Roaring down the mountains that tower over the Japanese waterfront town of Nou, a landslide cuts the village in two and pushes a crack passenger express train into the sea. Tons of dirt and rock crush thirty houses and despite the cataclysmic force of the slide, no one was killed. Aerial Shot - A landslide that cut the village in two. MS - A passenger train that was pushed off the track by the slide. MS - Many rescue workers digging with pick axes and shovels, MCUS - Two men checking out a gully and just above them are the remains of twisted railroad track. MCUS - A railroad train tanker buried halfway in mud. MCUS - A smashed up passenger train with a medium size tree piercing through its roof. Inside the passenger train you see the larger part of the trunk of the tree. MS - One of the passenger cars of the train that was pushed right up to the edge of the ocean. Rescue workers are picking up debris and looking for survivors. Volunteers picking up personal belongings that has been washed up on shore. Aerial shot - Tons of mud and rock that cut loose from the mountain causing one huge landslide right down to the ocean destroying homes in its path. | |
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