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Italian Floods: Wide Area Devastated

Italian Floods: Wide Area Devastated
Clip: 425155_1_1
Year Shot: 1963 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1708
Original Film: 036-018-02
HD: N/A
Location: Sardinia, Italy
Timecode: 00:08:21 - 00:09:45

Europe's worst winter in a century continues to take its toll. On the island of Sardinia, farmers suffer huge livestock and crop losses are swiftly melting snows turn into raging floods. Mud-slides too, are a menace as they creep down on villages. House demolished by mudslide at end. Foggy day with freight train making its way through the snowy landscape. MS - Several people out side shoveling snow. MS - A herd of sheep making their way down a snowy hill. POV - Passenger in a moving car taking pictures of the town. MS - A crane sitting in the mist of flooded water. MS - Two farmers stand on a piece of dry land if a flooded field. MS - A tractor with a plow on it clearing off snow and fallen rock. MS - Village people standing off to the side on different levers on the side of a hill, with their umbrellas open. MS - A building collapsing due to the amount of water and snow it endured.