Downtown Waco shattered by tornadoes
Title cards "Twisters, nature blitzes, Texas cities" and "Waco" superimposed on the city's busy business district / An aerial view of clouds; The ALICO Building stands tall above the disintegrated town; pan right / An elevated view of several trucks, a crane and other earth moving equipment / Driving past collapsed walls / Men walking the middle a street with wrecked cars and debris / a fallen roof on an automobile / the 'Kirkpatrick Furniture' store with crumpled wreckage inside / A construction crane with a workers and a large fallen roof with one man using a fire axe; a man on a large bulldozer driving right; empty second story rooms of a building with the front blown off next to the 'Oberlanders' facade/ A man carries a small stack of wood / Wrecked, crushed autos / A pan of unrecognizable businesses // Title "San Angelo" superimposed on more wreckage / a debris field swept clean of buildings / the Red Cross flag / Soldiers jump out of a covered truck / Three men standing in the wreckage / women walk through a roofless kitchen / Lakeview High School with a portion of the roof collapsed and a discarded bicycle in the foreground / VS fallen tin ceiling tiles; a house with one wall standing / Men picking through the debris seen through a headboard of a bed / The ruins of grandstands and other destruction / men watch as a portion of a building collapses / a crane removes a large panel
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Editorial #:
1367853944
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
May 11, 1953
Upload date:
License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released.ÌýMore information
Clip length:
00:01:38:02
Location:
Waco, Texas, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr004959_01_01
- Accidents and Disasters,
- Waco,
- 1950-1959,
- Adult,
- Aerial View,
- Archival,
- Army Soldier,
- Axe,
- Backhoe,
- Bicycle,
- Black And White,
- Bleachers,
- Building Exterior,
- Built Structure,
- Bulldozer,
- Business,
- Business Finance and Industry,
- Car,
- Carrying,
- Ceiling,
- City,
- Cleaning,
- Cloud - Sky,
- Composite Image,
- Crane - Machinery,
- Crumpled,
- Crushed,
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- Kitchen,
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- Newsreel,
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- San Angelo - Texas,
- School Building,
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