Full title reads: "Cassino - A Miracle Of Restoration".
Cassino, Italy.
MV Pan Monastery under construction. SV Top view pan workmen on scaffolding. LV From bottom of stairs monastery under construction.
Library footage - LV Monastery being bombed. Bell tower hit. SV Guns firing. SV Another gun firing. LV Monastery Shells bursting on slopes. SV Monastery with shells bursting.
LV Fade-in monastery after bombing. SV Tree pan to GV monastery showing new steps. SV Reconstruction work showing modern equipment being used pan down to modern stone crusher. MV Stonemasons at work. SV Stonemason wearing paper hat. SV Statues under shed awaiting return to their old place in Cloister of Benfactus. CU Statue. CU Another statue. SV Men adjusting cross on bell tower. SV Scaffolding round bell tower pan down to bells. CU Pan down bells. GV Bombed part of abbey pan down to GV surrounding countryside showing allied military cemetery.
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