Vaal Floods At Record Height (1940-1949)

Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Titles read: ’African Mirror No. 242 - VAAL FLOODS AT RECORD HEIGHT’. South Africa. Aerial views of flooded area around the River Vaal. Residential areas, sluice gates of barrage open. Riviera Hotel surrounded by water. Some houses have water nearly up to their roofs. Shots of river waters thundering through sluice gates. Farm fields totally flooded. FILM ID:1944.3 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 ca