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Great disasters
Title
Great disasters [electronic resource (video)] / Independent Television News (Great Britain)
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2006], c2000.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (62 min.) : sd., b&w & col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on July 22, 2006.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Caused both by humans and by nature, disasters have played an unforgettable part in the history of the 20th century. This program contains footage of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse, and the aftermath of Pan Am flight 103's mid-air explosion over Lockerbie and the 1998 high-speed train crash at Eschede. Clips of natural catastrophes include flooding in New England; hurricanes in Florida; avalanches in France and Austria; earthquakes in Turkey, Taiwan, and Mexico City; and volcanic eruptions in Hawaii, New Zealand, Montserrat, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: Independent Television News (Great Britain), 2000
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
ITN/Reuters Stock Footage Library
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
10 & up.
Contents
Plane Crash at Lockerbie, Scotland (4:31)
Mexico Earthquake (1:31)
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1:56)
Hindenburg Airship Disaster (3:02)
Florida Hurricane Disaster (1:21)
New England Floods (1:58)
Taiwan Earthquake (1:18)
Turkey Earthquake (7:06)
Train Crash in Germany (6:13)
Hurricane Georges (2:01)
South London Train Crash and Chamonix Avalanche (2:50)
Galtur Avalanche (1:51)
Volcanic Hills of Montserrat (5:08)
Volcanic Eruptions in New Zealand and Hawaii. (3:57)
Montserrat Volcanic Eruptions (3:07)
Volcanic Activity on Mt. Merapi, Indonesia (4:04)
Cerro Negro Volcano in Nicaragua (3:10)
Mt. Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala (3:48)
Videorecording number
10774s Infobase
10781 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Independent Television News (Great Britain)
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