THIS IS TRAGEDY Nearly two hundred children buried in mud at landslide at Aberfan, Wales.
	Tape Master:	5975
	Catalog #:	35190
	Clip Number:	35190-3
	Orginal Film:	66/86
	Timecode:	01:18:39 - 01:22:00
	Location:	Aberfan, Wales
	Year Shot:	1966 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	DISASTERS: Landslides DISASTERS: Mining LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, Wales SAFETY: Search and Rescue
	Description:	GV. Men working on the site on Saturday morning, & LV. LV. Men working. CU. Man working with pick. CU. Young man shovelling up the slag. SV. Women of the Civil Defence serving tea to workers, & CU. CU. Miner drinking. CU. Two more men working. CU. Young miner with long hair drinking tea. GV. Men working around school site. LV. As body is brought up on stretcher from site where it has just been found. CU. Miner looking. CU. Young man looking. CU. Elderly woman, Civil Defence worker, looking. CU. Man looking, & CU. LV. Pan, stretcher being carried past school. CU. Woman weeping. LV. Stretcher being carried along. CU. Woman crying. LV. Men and women weeping, walking along street, & SV. SV. Lord Snowdon walking with police officers. GV. Men working where slag is still burning, & LV. One man climbs up the heap and disappears into smoke. LV. Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, walking with police officer. CU. Pan, Prince Philip walking. GV. Men working in demolished end of school, which has now been partially cleared of the slag. LV. Prince Philip watching men working. CU. Prince Philip. LV. Pan, men working in school, & GV. LV. Pan, men working on pile of slag, & GV. CU. Young man in crowd. General view of the Rhondda Valley. GV. Rhondda valley showing very high tips. GV. Tip towering over no working pit. LV. Pit head, & GV. LV. Pit head. LV. Locked gates. CU. Padlock on gates. GV. Slag tips towering over village. SV. Pan, two miners who have just come off shift. CU. Pan, miners. GV. Tip over village, & AS. GV. Another tip towers over row of cottages. LV. Two small boys walking along path on the tip. GV. Slag tips, pan to village in valley. GV. From village showing the tips high above the houses. General view of the Rhondda Valley.

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