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MISSISSIPPI AT RECORD HEIGHT MENaCES VAST AREA

Date other

28 Apr 1927

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

NoS ID

385951

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Flooded town, countryside. Water surging over landscape.

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REMARKABLE AIR VIEWS OF MISSISSIPPI FLOODS

Date released

5 May 1927

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1682

NoS ID

385963

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Arial shots of flooded land, tent cities, submerged buildings etc.

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News in a Nutshell: Mississippi Floods

Date released

25 Mar 1935

Series name

Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue no

35/24

NoS ID

092132

Story no

5 / 10

Extras

1 film clip

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Salving a Steamer on the Mississippi

Date released

12 Mar 1917

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

623

NoS ID

076628

Story no

2 / 6

Sunken steamer in river. Workman on deck, diver in river.

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30,000 Flee Floods

Date released

25 Jan 1932

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

95

NoS ID

031851

Story no

2 / 6

Rain-swollen Tallahatchie River bursts banks. Starvation threatens homeless, as raging waters spread ruins.

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New Orleans Saved

Date released

12 May 1927

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

1397; Super Issue No.: 27/38

NoS ID

085938

Story no

6 / 9

Extras

1 film clip

Raging waters of the Mississippi released by dynamiting the levee at Poydras - at cost of flooding 450,000 acres of valuable land.

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To Save New Orleans!

Date released

12 May 1927

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

820-1

NoS ID

131268

Story no

6 / 6

Further coverage of the Mississippi floods, including the threat to New Orleans.

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'SUGAR BOWL’ SWEPT BY MISSISSIPPI FLOOD

Date other

25 May 1927

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

NoS ID

386014

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: More levees in rich cane country collapse, spreading desolation over vast area.

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After the Flood 2 (1994 Video)

Producer

Bettina Lerner

Subject

Engineering; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

The Mississippi is one of the most rigorously controlled and engineered rivers in the world, yet in the summer of 1993 it suffered the worst flooding in its history. Fundamental questions are being asked...

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S.O.S.

Date released

16 Dec 1929

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1955

NoS ID

386657

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Growing menace of appalling floods throughout country calls for immediate action by authorities: Windsor, Eton, and Chelsea. Also, reinforcement of dykes along the banks of the Mississippi, USA.

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