- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of fire fighters working to extinguish a fire at a movie theater on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, 1963
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1963
- Subject:
- Fires
Fire fighters
Theaters--Accidents
Fires--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Motion picture theaters - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this series of WSB newsfilm clips from sometime in 1968, fire fighters are working to extinguish a fire at a movie theater on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. The clip is divided into two segments, part one and b-roll. Part one begins with a shot of a fire engine and firemen on the street near the burning theater. Smoke can be seen billowing into the air. This is followed by firefighters carrying hoses and climbing the fire engine ladder and spraying water onto the fire. The following clips are of fire fighters combating the fire from several different angles. This if followed by shots of people stopping to watch. There is also a shot of a nearby beauty salon being evacuated. The clips end with shot of the burnt out box office.
The second segment of the clip is b-roll, during which more footage of the firefighters combating the fire is shown. It begins with a long shot of the theater on fire. After this are clips of the firefighters spraying water into the burning theater. The clips end with a group of men surveying the damage to the theater.
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn45041
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn45041
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn45041
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn45041/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn45041, Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of fire fighters working to extinguish a fire at a movie theater on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, 1963, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 1079, 56:28/57:24, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 56 secs.): black-and-white, silent ; 16 mm.
1 clip (b-roll): black-and-white, silent ; 16 mm. - Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
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