Ammunition Explosion
Ammunition Explosion
Clip: 353034_1_1
Year Shot: 1953
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1592
Original Film: 026-520-02
HD: N/A
Location: Strasbourg, France
Timecode: 00:36:04 - 00:36:46
200 Hundred tons of high explosives go up near Strasbourg in one of the greatest munitions explosions since the war. 6 Perish in the blast which shattered windows for miles around. Establishing shot - Aftermath of the explosion. CUS - A workman picking up an unexploded bomb. CUS - One of the surviving workman walking around in complete bewilderment. CUS - Someone s house or factory, nothing recognizable except two chairs with missing legs. CUS - A man pointing out the holes the exploding bomb made in the fence. CUS - A tiled roof with a big hole blown in. MCUS - Not much of a surviving home. MCUS - Men standing around a scene that amplifies complete destruction.