Flaming Plane Hits Houses 1959

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Title reads: "Flaming Planes hits houses".

Chicago, United States of America (USA).

Elevated shot crowds of people standing around the crash area: a suburban street near the airport. M/S firemen walking about with houses in the background still burning. M/S smoking wreckage strewn...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
52888
Sort Number:
59/097
Time in/Out:
01:49:29:00 / 01:50:14:00
Canister:
59/97
Film ID:
1701.39
Issue Date:
03/12/1959

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