Learning on ScreenNews in Colour: Flood Chaos
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Section Title
- News in Colour
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Flood Chaos (Colour). DESCRIPTION: More than a thousand square miles of South and South East England under water in the worst flood disaster in the region since 1953. Chaos in communications - many hundreds homeless - and loss of life, too - raise the question, should we have a Central Agency to take the place of Civil Defence, to coordinate rescue and relief? SHOTLIST: CU sign Danger Road Flooded. 4 shots of general floods (railway station, tracks completely submerged). MS car half submerged. MS boat being rowed and towed. MS crack in road. MS floods. Floods in Lewisham. MS policeman directing traffic while ankle deep in water. MS bus through flooded street. MS man & woman mopping up shop. MS water being pumped away. MS people get into lorry to be evacuated. MS lorry drives off with boy on pedal cycle behind it in three feet of water. MS lorry drives through flooded road towards camera.
- Keywords
- Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Environment; Railways; Transport; Police; Evacuees; Accidents and disasters
- Locations
- England; Lewisham; United Kingdom
- Card file number
- 93937
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 156
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