Marseilles - St Chamas Explosion (1936)

Item title reads - Marseilles. France. Explosion in ammunition factory kills 56 and wounds 200. L/S as the camera pans across St. Chamas, C/U of the town sign. M/S of clergymen praying at the scene. M/S as covered bodies on stretchers are carried away. They will be given a national funeral. M/S of people gathered at the scene. M/S as a stretcher is put onto a van. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.