Floods

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1436

Date Released

10 Dec 1956

Date Other

Nov 1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Home for Christmas
2. 2Children’s Festival
3. 3Pompeii - New Discoveries
4. 4Floods
5. 5Snow
6. 6The Ice Mountain
7. 7Canada - Oil Boom
8. 8Petrol - What a Performance

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 8

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Floods. DESCRIPTION: Widespread flooding in the neighbourhood of Rovigo in Northern Italy was the result of stormy weather in the Adriatic. Heavy seas breached the embankments in the Po delta area, causing Italy’s biggest river to break its bank further upstream. Damage to cultivation was very extensive. SHOTLIST: Various shots of houses with the water level quite high. People in boats. Men putting sand into sandbags. Rocks being loaded onto boats. Sand bags being used. Shots of the running water.

Keywords

Weather; Accidents and disasters

Locations

Italy; Rovigo

Footage sources

France

Card file number

69112

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

54

Story extras:

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