Learning on ScreenMovietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Empire State Building Plane Crash
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Empire State Building - Air Crash. DESCRIPTION: A Mitchell bomber en route for Newark in fog crashed into the 78th and 79th storeys of the Empire State Building. Thirteen lives, including the crew were lost and many others received burns, injuries and shock. SHOTLIST: CUT STORY: Various panning shots of Empire State Building. Interior shots of people in corridor and lift. View of New York from same. Empire State Building enveloped in fog. Mitchell plane in flight - crashes into same (do not see actual crash). Exterior and interior shots of damage, fire fighting etc. Dead man on balcony. Propeller embedded in wall and ruined elevator. Damaged typewriter and pair of shoes - offices, etc. Engine of plane on roof of penthouse. Crowds in street - first aid, man on stretcher, ambulance, nurses, etc. Look down shot of street below. Part of plane in street.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Health and medicine; Weather; Aviation; Fashion and costume; Accidents and disasters
- Locations
- New York
- Footage sources
- Paramount [United States]
- Card file number
- 45994
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 183
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