Carla

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1685
Date Released
18 Sep 1961
Date submitted
13 Sep 1961
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Carla. DESCRIPTION: Exceptional tides, flooding inland on the Texas coast, underlined the warnings of the approach of hurricane Carla. At one point, evacuation was aided by school buses, which took nearly a thousand men, women and children to safety. Reports put the total number of refugees at half a million. On their heels came Carla, the wildest of the century. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV pan river flooding house. GV pan same. LS pan same. MS school buses. MS same. MS women and children going on bus. MS pan women with baby. MCU pan another. MS pan men and women and children going on bus. MS bus going. LS house in flood. LS another. LS trees in wind. LS house in flood. GV floods and wind.
Keywords
Weather; Accidents and disasters
Locations
United States of America
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
83157
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Length of story (in feet)
80
Story extras:

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'Carla', British Movietone News Issue No. 1685, 18 Sep 1961. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/24275 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)