Summary

Montage of ship disasters from early 1940s

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Pathe
Negative # 13608 R3
Clip SR004124_01_10mov
Date 01/01/1941
Title Montage of ship disasters from early 1940s
Description (All POV) Three military biplanes flying through the air / Quick with camera and apparatuses / VS A man jumps from the airplane, opens his parachute, and several others float in the air // A person seated on a circular platform is winched to a damaged ship / The deck of the burned out ship; view of what is probably the ship's promenade deck; discarded clothes and shoes / VS construction workers with one walking on a girder above the camera // The gondola of a US Army airship / A man seated in a canoe-shaped craft being lowered to the water; he floats at the end of a rope / Title card: Tanker in Flames off Jersey Coast / Men standing on the bow of a ship with a man looking through binoculars at an airship with a fire underneath it / VS ship broken in two with billowing smoke / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete
Country Unspecified

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