| Welsh Tragedy: Hundreds Killed In Slag Avalanche | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1753 |
| Catalog #: | 426088 | |
| Clip Number: | 426088-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 039-086-02 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | England, United Kingdom | |
| Year Shot: | 1966 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/CHILDREN: School-age child CROWDS: Queue (Line), Misc DISASTERS: Avalanches DISASTERS: Damage / Aftermath DISASTERS: Rescues DISASTERS: Survivors DISASTERS: Victims LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England ROYALTY: British, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | |
| Description: | NO AUDIO Some 200 persons, mostly children, are killed in an avalanche of coal slag which buries part of the village of Aberfan, in South Wales. The local schoolhouse, a farm and 16 miners' cottages were engulfed in the slide. All Wales is shocked. Establishing shot - Miners digging for their own children. High Angle Shot - Two policemen removing a recovered body of a child. MCUS - The miners and other people of the village digging and removing the slag in buckets. MS - Prince Philip walking and evaluating the heart wrenching disaster calculating the loss of so many children. MS - Prince Philip looks on at a building that was dug out of the slag, this very well could be the school building. High Angle Shot - A removal of another body in a body bag. | |
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