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Thousands Flee As Terrific Hurricane Lashes East Coast

Reel Number: 221304-19

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1936

Country: USA

Location: New York,NYC

TC Begins: 17:29:29

TC Ends: 17:32:18

Duration: 00:02:49

Thousands Flee As Terrific Hurricane Lashes East Coast ca 21Sep36 Huge waves breaking onto rocks protecting shoreline. Breaking over boardwalk. Spray blowing off waves. Injured man smoking cigarette. Beach combers. Men walking through coastal town in deep water. Newsreel cameramen w/ cameras covered. Police & men thru town. Downed telephone lines. Red Cross ambulance pulling car. 17:30:42 Looking down on rowboat thru street of town. People in deep water being blown about. State Capital building seen from street w/ water half-way up cars. Ocean View Club & destruction across street in front. Kids on bicycles through water up to handlebars. Men carrying women. Man w/ flare at night walking thru water. 17:31:11 Night shot of neon in New York City’s Times Square and traffic through heavy rain. Pedestrians carrying umbrellas. 17:31:19 Blacks helped up onto dock from whaleboat, pose for camera. White men inspecting beached & wrecked boats. Destroyed dock from air; concrete dock or highway undercut by water. Enormous tank rolled onto ?? Destroyed houses or businesses along beach front. Destroyed boardwalk. People hanging out laundry. Weather; Storms; Destruction; Debris; Damage;

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