Spring Floods Hit America 1964

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Description

United States of America (USA).

Title reads 'Flood Waters Spread Destruction in Seven States'.

Various aerial views of vast flooded areas of Ohio, Kentucky and Cincinnati. Top halves of whole towns are just visible and the fun fair at Coney Island has the frame work of the big dipper...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
88788
Sort Number:
UN 3869 G
Time in/Out:
01:09:04:00 / 01:10:50:00
Canister:
UN 3869 G
Film ID:
3159.07
Issue Date:
1964

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