Disaster at Halifax, Nova Scotia - ammo ship blows up.
Aftermath of explosion of an ammunition ship at Halifax. Opens with DS of snowy disaster site - looks like pick up stix; just splinters; and people walking over it searching for victims. CU same; with a group of men carrying body on stretcher. DS pan over snow-covered train station (?). Grainy but good shot of rescue team lifting stretcher with injured survivor of the explosion onto train.
GV snowy area nearby: trees damaged; houses fallen across field. Closer shot of a blown-up building. And another ... pan to left; showing destroyed warehouse; etc.; with boats going by in the inlet in BG. CU of house half blown to bits!
Disasters.
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Description
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Data
- Archive
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 1914 - 1918
- Sound:
- sound
- Media URN:
- 72257
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Film ID:
- 1880.22
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration
- 00:01:35:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:17:43:00 / 01:19:18:00
- Canister:
- ON 077 A
- Sort Number:
- ON 077 A
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- Categories
- Travel & Exploration Religion & Politics
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jamied says
Reducing this clip's current date range, this footage shows the devastation caused by the explosion of the "SS Mont Blanc" ammunition ship on 6 December 1917.
The current shots list gives no indication of the sheer scale of this disaster. Somewhere approaching 2000 people were killed, and another 9000 injured. Astonishingly, every building within a 16-mile radius was either destroyed or badly damaged.
It was, at the time, the largest man-made explosion in history. More information about the incident can be found here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion