| Trapped Boys Saved: Lost For 2 Days In Abandoned Mine | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1713 |
| Catalog #: | 362229 | |
| Clip Number: | 362229-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 036-058-02 | |
| Timecode: | 00:07:53 - 00:09:15 | |
| Location: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | |
| Year Shot: | 1963 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/TEENAGERS: Misc DISASTERS: Collapses & Cave-Ins DISASTERS: Survivors LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh | |
| Description: | After 50 hours of terror, three teen-age boys are rescued from an abandoned coal mine near Pittsburgh. Two hundred rescue workers searched for the boys after their bicycles were found at the pit entrance. They came through with few ill effects - and a vow to do future adventuring above ground. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Foothills and the shafts leading into the coal mines, two teenagers standing on a bridge looking down. Camera panning - The coal mine shafts. MS - Coal mine rescue men in the shafts looking for the boys. MS - Police officer crawling trough an opening of some missing bricks. Camera panning - Ceiling of the coal mine CUS - The officer gets through the opening of the missing bricks and walks pass the camera. MS - Small crowd of rescue workers. CU - Fireman smoking a cigarette. MSOH - Rescue workers carrying one of the rescued boy's on a stretcher. MS - Family members and friends waiting. MSOH - Another boy is carried out. MCUS - Parents of the boys in the hospital standing by the boys laying on gurney. | |
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