Oil Menace Hits French Beaches

Series

Series Name

Pathe News

Issue

Issue No.

67/32

Date Released

20 Apr 1967

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Oil Menace Hits French Beaches
2. 2Queen Visits National Stud
3. 3New Telescope
4. 4Scotland Beat England

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

The black filth spewed from the tanker ‘Torrey Canyon’ invades the beaches of Brittany. Dramatic pictures of the fight to save the sands and wild life from the oil menace.

Keywords

Pollution

Locations

Brittany

Footage sources

Pathe Journal

Length of story (in feet)

144

Story extras:

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