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Rebuilding Texas City 221686-17 | Footage Farm

44 views · Published 18 November 2013 · 1:18 · Indexed 16 October 2026

Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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Title:  Rebirth Of A City
07:08:29  LS down new street & one-story buildings of town.
07:08:33  Priest (?) walking to monument in park or cemetery.  CU of inscription:  In Memorium April 16, 1947 etc.  Many names inscribed.  Optical dissolve to:
07:08:47  Large burning oil tanks, pan across to burning refinery w/ heavy black smoke.  MCU billowing.  View from water of burned & burning warehouses on docks.  Optical dissolve to:
07:09:06  CU hands holding photograph of cleared land & docks after fire.  Four men looking at picture.
07:09:14 Pan over wreckage of fire aftermath; destroyed remains of refinery or possibly under reconstruction.  Dock rebuliding
07:09:28  New building w/ large Showboat movie marquee advertising Ma & Pa Kettle over entrance.  New school.
07:09:39  LS of skyline of rebuilt city.
NOTE:  Fire on French Liberty Ship Grandcamp ignited 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer & other goods.

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