| WORLDS WORST EXPLOSION Lightning strikes an ammunition depot causing devastation, death and injury. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5344 |
| Catalog #: | 243416 | |
| Clip Number: | 243416-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1313 | |
| Timecode: | 01:43:13 - 01:44:17 | |
| Location: | Dover, New Jersey | |
| Year Shot: | 1926 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Explosions DISASTERS: Fires LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New Jersey | |
| Description: | World's worst explosion. Towns wiped out ... many killed and injured ... as lightning strikes and explodes great arsenal and ammunition depot. Dover, New Jersey, United States of America (U.S.A.). Shaky aerial shot of charred, smoking landscape. M/S of building; mangled, burnt, wreck. M/S of another wrecked building, two men in uniform walk past. More shots of smoking landscape next to a stretch of water. Various L/Ss of collapsed buildings (quite large, could be depot itself). | |
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