Shipping Hazard Blasted
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 7
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Ripple Rock Blasted. DESCRIPTION: Beneath the white water, off Vancouver, lie the twin peaks of Ripple Rock. Here, they’ve packed in tons of explosive. It’s the climax, of a million and a quarter pound project; to blow up the great hazard, that has claimed many ships, and 120 lives. Fourteen hundred tons of Nitramex 2H made the biggest man-made, non-atomic blast, on record. The top of Ripple Rock is now forty seven feet, below the surface. SHOTLIST: GV Ripple Rock. MS boat on water. MS explosives underground. MS men handling explosives. CU explosives. MS men handling same. CU explosives. MS cameramen. MS rocket fired. MS firing button pressed. CU explosion.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Mass media; Environment; Explosions; Accidents and disasters; Engineering
- Locations
- Canada; Ripple Rock
- Footage sources
- National Film Board of Canada
- Card file number
- 73348
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Geoffrey Sumner
- Length of story (in feet)
- 96
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