Paris Express Disaster.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

British Film Institute, owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Accidents.

Railroads.

France--Paris.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (56 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1916.

Summary:

"PARIS EXPRESS DISASTER Fourteen persons were killed and forty injured in an accident to the Paris Express at St. Denis. The train collided with a goods truck which had been shunted on to the wrong line". Long shot of wrecked coaches. Men standing around the derailed locomotive. View down at wreckage and debris scattered across several lines. Men working among the wreckage.

Notes:

Issue number: 233-2 ; Story number within issue: 2 of 5

Series: Topical Budget.

With intertitles.