Demolition Footage - WPA Film Library

Demolition

THE YEAR'S BIGGEST EXPLOSION (aka YEAR'S GREATEST EXPLOSION) A huge man-made explosion blows up a hillside to make way for new roads in Germany. Soundtrack miss

MORE RISKY THAN IT LOOKS A 150 foot chimney is demolished by planting dynamite in the base.

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL Blast furnace.

DEMOLITION OF LLANBRADACH VIADUCT Derelict columns of a railway viaduct are blown up with dynamite in Llanbradach, Mid Glamorgan.

NEW HOMES IN NASH'S LONDON Part of Nash's Regents Park layout is replaced by St. Pancras housing estate.

CONDEMNED HOUSES IN KILBURN Condemned houses in Kilburn are set on fire by the Fire Brigade.

OLD SEVERN BRIDGE VIADUCT BLOWN UP Part of the viaduct falls after explosion, bulldozers move in to complete the demolition.

DYNAMITE AT WAR OFFICE SITE American Workmen Use Explosives to Blow Up Flats for a New War Office Building

SLUM CLEARANCE Old Kent Road Area Very good stock shot material of demolition of terraced housing in inner city area.

HOSPITAL BURNT DOWN Witton isolation hospital near Birmingham burnt down.

Building Demolition - Equipment

THE OLD VENGEANCE Battleship, H.M.S. Vengeance, is taken to Dover to be broken up.

BLOWING UP TREES IN NEWPORT, SALOP Trees in Lilleshall Forest are dynamited to make way for a new golf course.

FELLING WIRELESS MASTS AT CAERNARVON Old radio masts are felled in Caernarfon in Wales.

A MENACE REMOVED An item about the demolition of the fortress of Heligoland, part of the Peace Treaty.

NELSON PILLAR REMAINS DEMOLISHED Detonation of explosives to destroy the remains of the Nelson Pillar in Dublin.

DAWN OF 1922 Workmen break up old battleships at the dawn of the New Year.

GIANT CABLE WAY DROPPED - JARROW (aka GIANT CABLEWAY) The supports of a giant cableway come crashing to the ground to be dismantled and sold for scrap iron. Jar

BREAKING UP MINNEWASKA AT CLYDEBANK The outdated liner "Minnewaska" is broken up on the Clyde, Scotland.

BRICK AND PIN THROWING CONTEST Men and women take part in brick and rolling pin throwing contest

Building Demolition - Equipment

THE SPLITTER - A CONCRETE FACT Old and new methods of splitting concrete are demonstrated.

Scrap Drive: Ancient Locomotives Cut Up For War Sinews.

DEMOLITION OF VIADUCT AT LLANBRADACH Viaduct being demolished in Wales.

WITH ALMIGHTY ROAR - BLOWING UP WRECK Exploding The Ship "campania"

CHIMNEY FELLING AT BRANSTON, STAFFS. Tallest chimney in the country goes down.

JEDBURGH'S BIG BLAST Quarrymen explode rock for road making at Jedburgh, Scotland.

CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA (NO. 1) Burning away foot of tower to demolish it.

CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA (NO. 100) 17th century house home of Mozart in Vienna being demolished.

Moving A Mountain: Canadian Engineers Tackle Huge Project

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - BLOWING UP A RAILWAY BRIDGE

THE MAST MASTERS Old radio masts are knocked to the ground

Magnet on Crane Lifting Scrap

Ocean of Flame: Jets Bomb Tanker to Save Beaches

THE FALLING WALL Classic early film - The Falling Wall - by Lumiere.

Buildings Collapsing

News in Brief: Hitler Yacht Dismantled.

Building Demolition

Sensational Blast Dams River With 12,000 Ton Monolith

News in Brief: San Francisco, Sunken Ship Blasted.

FRAGMENTISER Car Smashing Machine. A Fragmentiser crushes up cars and shreds them into metal pieces.

LONDON BRIDGE London Bridge is dismantled so it can be shipped to America.

CHIMNEY STACKS BLOWN UP Collapsing Towers

Twenty-five Years Ago

A Big Navigational Hazard Gets Blasted

BAHNHOF BLASTED

Blast Wrecks Bootleg Still

Blast Tumbles Huge Sky-Ride Tower At Fair

Dynamite to the rescue!

Record explosion blasts 136 foot cliff!

Justice Center

Dynamite Makes Triple Hit

Burn 2,300 'Squeallers'

Explosions in the Country

Crike Demolition

Perk At Quimby

Perk at Quimby

LONDON BRIDGE DEMOLITION London Bridge is Coming Down

HELIGOLAND BLOWN UP Footage of plumes of smoke billowing from what was once Heligoland.

REBUILDING WARSAW Voluntary working parties help to rebuild Warsaw, Poland.

SCHWAB MANSION DEMOLITION

NEWS FLASHES - TWO CHIMNEYS FELLED ON BUILDING SITE Industrial chimneys belonging to old Stag Brewery demolished in Pimlico.

BUILDING DEMOLISHED TO MAKE WAY FOR NEW CULTURAL CENTRE

WITTON ISOLATION HOSPITAL DEMOLISHED

BRIDGE DEMOLITION Marvels of communication - engineers, ground troops and helicopters join in bridge demolition.

Homes Being Torn Down

LIKE A GIANT CHEESE CUTTER Buildings Demolished At Stonehenge

S'EASY Three chimney stacks are purposely demolished in Bolton, Lancashire.

LIKE A GIANT CHEESE CUTTER Wartime hangars on Salisbury Plain are demolished to give clear view of Stonehenge.

NEWS FLASHES - STATION DEMOLITION OF A BERLIN TRAIN STATION

PRISON WALLS MAKE COTTAGE HOMES Scenes showing the demolition of an old prison at Devizes.

SCRAPPED Captured German floating dock is sent to breakers yard "because we've now built our own"!

END OF “PALMERSTON’S FOLLY” Royal Engineers blow up old bunkers built in the day

THE LAST OF ONE OF LONDON’S FAMOUS LANDMARKS! Shots of the Old Middlesex Hospita

FELLED BY FIRE A strategically placed fire brings down a disused industrial chimney.

WHOLESALE CHIMNEY FELLING Old chimneys are demolished to make way for new factories.

A TICKLISH JOB The demolition of an industrial chimney - good slow motion shots.

WEMBLEY IN THE HANDS OF THE HOUSEBREAKERS The demolition of the British Empire Exhibition.

LAST MOMENTS OF FAMOUS BATTLESHIP The battleship "Orion" is broken up at a yard

BEATTY'S FAMOUS FLAG SHIP Beatty's battleship, famous from World War One, is sent to the shipbreakers.

SKY HIGH British soldiers blow up a derelict bridge in Derbyshire - just for practice.

SCOTTISH ROYAL TOUR The Queen presents new Colours to Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

ITS AN OLD ROMANY CUSTOM Romany Gipsies are forced to leave camp and move to modern houses - they are not happy.

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - DEMOLITION OF YARDLEY ROAD BRIDGE

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - CHIMNEY FELLED AT BERMONDSEY

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - DEMOLITION OF WAREHOUSES ON TOWER HILL

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - DEMOLITION OF PENYRHEOL VIADUCT

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY Canada blasts Rocky mountains to build a new motorway.

THE UP TO DATE STEEPLEJACK Steeplejacks use a traction engine to pull down St. John's Church in one hour.

BREAKING UP OLD TRAMS AT MARGAT- Old trams dissembled at Margate.

FAREWELL! It is final - Waterloo Bridge is to be demolished.

MASS DEMOLITION Gill Footbridge in Sunderland is demolished with help of a train engine.

DRASTIC DEMOLITION Railway bridge in Dauntsey and bridge over Seine in France both demolished by blasts.

WIRELESS MAST FELLED Tall wooden structure falls down at Kidbrooke.

FELLING A TALL LONDON CHIMNEY The last tall chimney in the centre of London is demolished.

AND GREAT WAS THE FALL THEREOF A huge chimney is demolished in a factory in Lanc

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - DEMOLISHING OLD HOUSES

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - WIRELESS MASTS FELLED IN SOUTH AFRICA

DIVERTING A RIVER Workmen dynamite parts of Blundellsands to create new channel for River Alt

A BIG BANG 16 charges of high explosives are used to blow out rocks at Llandullas Limestone Quarries in North Wales.

THE END OF THE MUSIC HALLS OLDEST JOKE Wigan Pier is demolished

OLD HOPPER DIES HARD Many attempts are needed to demolish an old hopper in railway siding. Austria.

BRIDGE DEMOLITION Marvels of communication - engineers, ground troops and helicopters join in bridge demolition.

ENGINEERS IN BATTLE Royal Engineers demonstration seen by Cento officers.

DORTAN: BADLY DAMAGED TOWN Item showing rebuilding of Dortan, town which was destroyed by Germans in 1944.

GERMANY BUILDING BEING DEMOLISHED The work of demolition beings in post-war Germany.

WORKING HOLIDAYS In North Wales, the Civic Trust organises working holidays to make environmental improvements.

THE LAST PREFAB Scenes of the last prefabricated bungalow as the area around is demolished.

Demolition wallpaper

NEW HOMES IN NASH'S LONDON Part of Nash's Regents Park layout is replaced by St. Pancras housing estate.

A HOME IS BULLDOZED Mrs Mitchell fights for her home.

GERMAN NEWSREEL - BLOWING UP Germans destroy ammunition dump - good explosion shots.

CIVILIANS EVACUATED: BUNKER BLOWN UP An underground factory is blown up by the British army. Germany.

ESTUARY WRECK DISPOSAL Royal Navy Wreck Dispersal Flotilla explodes sunken tanker in Thames Estuary.

SICILY: U.S. TROOPS U.S. troops in Sicily.

CONTROLLED MINE EXPLOSIONS Explosions at the face of experimental coal mine shaft.

THE END AT SOUTH BANK (aka DEMOLITION OF FESTIVAL SITE) Demolition of South Bank Festival site where demolition worker injured.

DERELICT WAGON TRUCKS DEMOLISHED IN USA Valuable scrap metal removed from old goods wagons in USA - to be used in rearmament drive.

BURNING BUSES old buses being taken apart in scrap yard

PREPARING FOR ELECTRICITY ERA A 120 foot factory chimney is blown up at the Carrick-on-Suir Creamery.

SO PASSES THE GLORY OF EXHIBITIONS Buildings from the Great North Eastern Exhibition are demolished through fire by professional housebreakers.

THE LAST OF 150 YEAR OLD BRIDGE The last part of a 150 year old bridge is demolished because it is too narrow for traffic.

NEW YORK - BUILDINGS FOLD UNDER RAIN STORM Three blocks of buildings collapse under rain storm in downtown New York.

FINE ARTS PALACE DEMOLISHED The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco is demolished.

SLUM CLEARANCE IN JOHANNESBURG Impoverished black township - Prospect Town - cleared to make way for railway goods yard.

BLOWING UP VIADUCT The old viaduct being blown up in Crowhurst, Surrey.

NEWS IN FLASHES - CAIRO, ILLINOIS. A bridge in Cairo, Illinois is demolished.

DEMOLITION OF BRIDGES Emergency wartime bridge between Vauxhall and Lambeth is dismantled.

WITH A RESOUNDING ROAR! Explosions bring down huge chunks of rock in a chalk quarry.

FELLING RADIO MASTS (aka RADIO MASTS) GPO pulls down two radio masts in Somerton near Yeovil in Somerset.

12 YEARS AFTER VERSAILLES The German fortress of Kustrin is blown up as part of

News in a Nutshell: BREAKING UP THE MORRO CASTLE Acting captain and several officers of 'Morro Castle' on trial - men working on breaking up the ship.

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL - FROZEN FIELDS AND RIVERS

UNCLE SAM TACKLES A PROBLEM Good shots of New York slums and the flats built to replace them.

A MATTER OF SECONDS A chimney stack is demolished at Ringsend, Ireland.

BLOWING UP A BRIDGE Demolition of a bridge with dynamite.

CRYSTAL PALACE TOWER - THE END Last bit of Crystal Palace is demolished, steel frame will be used in war effort.

U.S.A. NEWS - NIAGARA BLASTING Niagara Falls is dynamited to clear dangerous, overhanging ridges.

NEWS FROM THE CZECHS Houses are demolished for new motorway.

THE WALL OF SHAME People living near the Berlin Wall are cleared from their homes in the Easter Sector.

SIX CHIMNEYS BLOWN UP Six chimneys are demolished to make way for Amsterdam's transition to natural gas. Holland.

SWINGING LONDON Item which seems to say the swinging youth are responsible for mass demolition of old London buildings.

FINAL DEMOLITION OF VIENNA'S ROTUNDA After large fire, remains of Rotunda in Vienna are demolished to make way for new building.

DEMOLITION WORKERS - KENSINGTON Demolishing Row of Victorian Houses

FAITH WILL MOVE A MOUNTAIN mountain being dynamited

BLOWING DOWN TO BUILD UP derelict buildings being dynamited

10 TONS OF DYNAMITE Impressive shots as 10 tons of dynamite are used to blow up 700 feet of dangerous cliff.

TRENCH DIGGING BY DYNAMITE Trenches are created through controlled explosions.

ESSEX RESERVOIR Land at West Hangingfield is cleared to make way for a reservoir.

LAST DAYS OF THE DOOMED VILLAGE OF TIGNES Village of Tignes in France is evacuated before being demolished and covered by dam water.

AMERICA STEPS UP AIR POWER An old hanger is blown up.

NEW MARKET SITE NINE ELMS Demolition works on new market site in London.

International Students Clear Bomb Site 2

Christmas At Berlin Wall. Vs

Selected Originals - NEWS FLASHES - DEMOLITION OF A BERLIN TRAIN STATION

NEWS FROM AMERICA - CALIFORNIA A 90 year old college is demolished with one pull.

TALL STORY How to get rid of an unwanted chimney.

NEWS FLASHES - TWO CHIMNEYS FELLED ON BUILDING SITE Industrial chimneys belonging to old Stag Brewery demolished in Pimlico.

Demolishing Tower - In Holland Ms

COLLAPSED FESTIVAL BRIDGE FOR TEST PURPOSES Tests on the concrete footbridge at The South Bank

PICCADILLY NEW CIRCUS The Monico at Piccadilly Circus is demolished to make way for modern complex.

Time Lapse Demolition of Star Theatre

Chicago CHA Building Blow-up

Implosion of Westbrook Hotel

GERMANY: BRITISH TROOPS Demolition of Buildings

REBUILDING WARSAW Voluntary working parties help to rebuild Warsaw, Poland.

RECONSTRUCTION OF BERLIN German newsreel item showing reconstruction of bombed German cities after WW2.

SCHWAB MANSION Various shots of a grand house with turrets, being demolished

SLUM CLEARANCE Old Kent Road Area Very good stock shot material of demolition of terraced housing in inner city area.

NEWS FROM AMERICA - CALIFORNIA A 90 year old college is demolished with one pull.

STUDENTS CLASH WITH POLICE French students riot about overcrowded universities and clash with police. Paris, France.

Dead Whale Turns Resort Into Desert Until They Use TNT

Building Blown Up

Akron Expressway

Area Razed for New Dallas County Courthouse

Future Site of Tarrant County Convention Center is Razed

Ft. Worth Hotel Demolished

SOON TO BE BUT A MEMORY A large aircraft hangar is purposely demolished.

THE LAST OF ONE OF LONDON’S FAMOUS LANDMARKS! Shots of the Old Middlesex Hospita

JUST A DROP - TOO MUCH A water tower is demolished in America.

Chicago Fire: Chicago Gets Revenge on Mrs. O'Leary

BRICKS BY THE MILLION Bricks made a Peterborough brickworks and two chimneys demolished in Washington DC.

INVASION SCENES American troops in newly liberated France. French people hold a Church service in thanks.

(DEEP SEA DIVER) A diver checks a river - Eisenhower and Bradley tour US 1st Army positions.

TROOPS CLEARING FOREST Troops at work in forest in the Far East.

BULLDOZER AT WORK A US army bulldozer clears rubble near a bomb damaged Church.

MUSSOLINI HELPS WITH DEMOLITION Benito Mussolini lends a hand in the demolition of some buildings.

CINETOPICALITIES IN BRIEF (NO. 143) Water tower demolished.

SMASHING UP OLD MARGATE TRAM CAR Film of the destruction of an old Margate tram.

ILLEGAL WHISKY STILL - USA A site for making illegal booze is blown up and then set on fire in America.

CINETOPICALITIES IN BRIEF (NO. 37) A chimney is felled.

BULLDOZER, TROOPS, MONTY Army bulldozer clears rubble, soldiers man field gun + Monty in a jeep.

PEEPS THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE WORLD (NO. 26) A foot-proof explosive.

LAST MOMENTS OF FAMOUS BATTLESHIP The battleship "Orion" is broken up at a yard

Building Implosion

CRASH Demolition of an industrial chimney.

Demolition of Building

Demolition

SHIPYARD DEMOLISHED Demolition of the Blohm-Voss shipyards in Germany by Royal Engineers.

Italian Village Saved By Explosives

PICCADILLY NEW CIRCUS The Monico at Piccadilly Circus is demolished to make way for modern complex.

Demolition Clean-Up

EXPLOSIONS bridge exploding.

DEMOLITION Reverse collapse/wrecking ball

DEMOLISHING HOUSES housing being pulled down

SLUM CLEARANCE Old Kent Road Area Very good stock shot material of demolition of terraced housing in inner city area.

Demolition in London, Old Kent Road

Selected Originals - NEWS FROM AMERICA - CALIFORNIA (aka FLATTENING A COLLEGE) A 90 year old college is demolished with one pull.

STEEL CHIMNEY FELLED A 175 foot steel chimney is felled in Chicago, United States of America.

Demolition in London, Old Kent Road

BULLDOZER CLEARING Bulldozers clearing up the wreckage of damaged buildings in Europe.

DEMOLISHING HOUSES housing being pulled down

REICHSTAG RUINS DEMOLISHED dome collapsing, portrait of Reichstag.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT TO BE SCRAPPED Royal yacht "Victoria & Albert" is stripped of its fittings before being broken up.

CARVING UP THE LION Admiral Beatty's famous battleship is taken to the Shipbreakers Yard.

DEMOLITION Demolition of Wharves

VIADICT DEMOLISHED Famous thirteen arch viaduct at Eastville, Bristol is demolished.

CHIMNEY FELLING! A chimney in Lancashire is demolished with explosives.

GERMANY: BRITISH TROOPS British troops In German city demolishing bomb damaged buildings.

CRYSTAL PALACE An item showing towers of Crystal Palace being dismantled for munitions.

REICHSTAG RUINS DEMOLISHED dome collapsing, portrait of Reichstag.

DEMOLITION Reverse collapse/wrecking ball

RECONSTRUCTING WARSAW STATION Building work begins on wrecked Warsaw railway station.

DEMOLISHING A CASTLE IN NEW YORK A castle in New York is demolished to make way for an apartment block.

DISMANTLING DOCK CRANES Men dismantling dock cranes.

CROXDALE - BLOWING UP BUILDING An old building and tower are blown up and demolished in Croxdale, Durham.

DEMOLITION Reverse collapse/wrecking ball

REBUILDING STANDS AT LE MANS French motor racing track is reconstructed after this year's tragic disaster.

HELIGOLAND BLOWN UP Footage of plumes of smoke billowing from what was once Heligoland.

COLLAPSE - BUILDINGS PULLED DOWN Engineers Pull Down Precarious Walls in Bombed Village

BLOWING UP A WATER TOWER IN GERMANY A water tower near Frankfurt is exploded by German soldiers.

RIVERSIDE DEMOLITION Demolishing Metal Girders with Blow Torch etc.

SLUM CLEARANCE Old Kent Road Area Very good stock shot material of demolition of terraced housing in inner city area.

DYNAMITE TUMBLES FOUR SMOKE STACKS Tall Smoke Stacks Dynamited

CHIMNEY FELLING British and French Steeplejacks Show Different Methods of Bringing Down a Chimney

WHITSTABLE REGATTA Slippery log contest and exploding boat at Whitstable Regatta.

MAIDSTONE (aka MAN PLAYS PIANO WHILE HOUSE IS DEMOLISHED) Footage of man playing a piano as his house is knocked down. Maidstone, Kent.

Building Demolition - Equipment

DEMOLITION at St. Katherine's Dock

A TICKLISH JOB ( aka WALL OF HOP EXCHANGE DEMOLISHED ) After a destructive fire, the Hop Exchange in London is demolished

BIG BLAST AT WESTMORELAND Footage of huge explosion in Westmoreland.

MARQUIS BLOWS UP MANSION TO EVADE TAXES Marquis de Maussabre blows up his dilapidated mansion to evade taxes

NEW MARKET SITE NINE ELMS Demolition works on new market site in London.

Building Demolition - Equipment

BLOWING UP BUILDINGS A building is demolished to make way for new cultural centre.

SLUM CLEARANCE - NEW YORK Good shots of slum buildings being demolished in New York - Mayor La Guardia starts off the project.

SHAKING UP MOTHER EARTH Trick camera effects are demonstrated - film reversal and slow motion.

SLUM CLEARANCE IN NEW YORK Slum building is cleared by a pendulum on a crane in New York.

Demolition of Hotel Newhouse

Demolition wallpaper

Demolition of Hotel Newhouse

CHIMNEY FELLING (aka BLAENAVON) The two tallest chimneys in South Wales are felled. Blaenavon.

TODAY ... AT THE WORLD OF TOMORROW Russia closes its pavilion at the World Fair

DESTRUCTION OF THE SIEGFRIED LINE The German fortifications along the Siegfried line are destroyed by explosives.

STREIFLICHTER AUS DEUTSCHLAND (aka TEMPLES OF HONOUR DESTROYED) The Temples of Honour in Munich are blown up.

CLEARING THE SLUMS Sir Hilton Young, Minister for Health, inspects slum clearing project in Wandsworth.

Building Demolition - Equipment

SLUM CLEARANCE Old Kent Road Area Very good stock shot material of demolition of terraced housing in inner city area.