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Slides Demolish Homes: Erosion Undermines Hillside Houses

Slides Demolish Homes: Erosion Undermines Hillside Houses
Clip: 426351_1_1
Year Shot: 1966 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1745
Original Film: 039-014-02
HD: N/A
Location: Bellaire, California
Timecode: 00:34:30 - 00:35:36

Loosened by heavy rains, a landslide in the exclusive Bellaire section of Los Angeles sends three homes tumbling into the street below. Eleven other homes are sealed off when the access road was blocked and a half-dozen others are threatened by new slides. The home are on a hillside that was the scene of a 1959 avalanche, the terrain was rebuilt only to have the same thing happen again. Bellaire, California High Angle Shot - Landslide in Bellaire, California, you see three houses that crashed into the street below. MS - Part of a hill side blocking a street a man walking over the rubble. CU - Part of someone's back yard just crumbled away, somehow the pool is still in tact. High Angle Shot - The hill side just crumbling away with homes and all.