Salvador Tragedy

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1146
Date Released
21 May 1951
Date submitted
17 May 1951
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Festival Fashions and Fabrics
  2. 2Can You Beat It?
  3. 3Salvador Tragedy
  4. 4HRH with Grenadiers
  5. 5Back from Malaya
  6. 6Paratroops Ready for Anything
  7. *Kirkwall’s Diesel Station

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Salvador Earthquake. DESCRIPTION: The most violent and disastrous earthquake in the history of Central America’s smallest republic, Salvador, resulted in tragic loss of life. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Mayor surrounded by crowds walk into camera. Various shots showing the terrible damage, buildings razed to the ground, large cracks in roadways, trees uprooted, etc. Casualties, carried off on stretchers. Searching among debris. Hospital centre with lines of stretchers on ground floor. Refugees clamber aboard lorries, parents pull the children aboard.
Keywords
Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Health and medicine; Environment; Displaced persons; Accidents and disasters
Locations
El Salvador
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
55475
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
72
Story extras:
Film clip

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