Learning on ScreenLynmouth Disaster, Devon
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Lynmouth Disaster, Devon. DESCRIPTION: It was 20 years ago that the world was told - ‘Lynmouth, on the North Devon coast, was no more’. The usually quiet and peaceful fishing village had been ripped apart, with the loss of 34 people, when, after heavy rain, the East and West Lyn Rivers overnight changed course and carried all before it out to sea. SHOTLIST: GV Lynmouth 20 years after floods, GV pan River Lyn. CU water running over rocks on river bed. CU river flowing quite fast, slip pan GV floods gushing past Glen Lyn Rest 20 years ago. GV wrecked houses along edge of river. GAV Lynmouth devastated by flood. GV wrecked hotel. GV pan flood damaged Lynmouth wrecked cars, houses etc. SV broken bridge Tor Hotel sign in back ground. GV centre of Lynmouth as it is today. GV shops etc. SV sign Glen Lyn Gorge Opened 1854, destroyed 1952, re-opened 1962. SV River Lyn, zoom out & pan to monument to 2 Australian girls drowned in flood. CU memorial plaque. GV row of houses pull back to sign Middleham Gardens. CU flowers in Middleham Memorial Gardens. GV pan from river to post office. SV post office. SV old post office with flood wreckage piled in front. GV pan wrecked town.
- Keywords
- Weather; Accidents and disasters
- Locations
- Devon
- Card file number
- 98397
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Ray Gallard
- Length of story (in feet)
- 152
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