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Title: CRANE COLLAPSE ON BUILDING SITE

Reference number: 8838

Date: 1958c

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 1.17 mins

Description: Footage of the aftermath of an industrial accident on a building site in Dundee - a crane has collapsed and workers and ambulance men cut through metal to free a trapped worker and take him away by ambulance.

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[no title] blank (0.04) gvs of building site, possibly Dryburgh Gardens in Dundee, workers and rescue workers, collapsed crane structure shored up with wooden supports - ambulance men surround worker using oxyacetylene torch - high shot of rescue workers surrounding trapped worker, pan along collapsed crane and tilt up block of flats under construction - more high shots of rescue workers crowding round, debris is moved and trapped worker moved on to stretcher, doctor and nurse in attendance - worker on stretcher carried into ambulance, press photographers take photographs (1.12) blank (1.17)