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:
Film clip

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