Tragedy over New York

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1646A

Date Released

22 Dec 1960

Date submitted

19 Dec 1960

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Tragedy Over New York. DESCRIPTION: In a snowstorm over New York, a DC-8 Jet airliner, which was carrying 76 passengers from Chicago to New York, collided with a Constellation, with some forty passengers on board. From passengers and crews there was only one survivor saved from the two planes, an eleven-year-old boy. He has since died from his injuries. Buildings in Brooklyn were shattered and set on fire. How many casualties occurred in these houses and in the street was still uncertain. Our pictures tell the story of this appalling disaster, with its heart-rending loss of life. SHOTLIST: Key scene. LS street covered with the wreckage of a DC-8 Jet Airliner. CU wreckage. LS firemen fighting the fire. GV part of wrecked plane, crowd in f/g. LS pan over wreckage. GV same. LS firemen climbing ladder joined to building. GV wreckage in street, crowds mingle. LS firemen rescuing boy from burning building. LS same. GV wreckage of plane. GV firemen carrying injured boy on stretcher. LS same - through streets. MS same amongst crowd. GV wrecked plane in street. CU same. MLS same. GV pan same. LS firemen fighting the fires. LS same. LS crowd. MS smouldering building. LS fireman fighting the fire.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Health and medicine; Children; Aviation; Accidents and disasters

Locations

New York; United States of America

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

81594

Credits:

Commentator: Jeffrey K. Shearley

Length of story (in feet)

113

Story extras:

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