Simplon Pass (1950)

Full title reads: “Simplon Pass“. Switzerland. A snowplough is used to clear large drifts in the Swiss Alps. GV Snow plough clearing Simplon road. MV Men breaking ice with picks as snow plough shoots stream of ice into air. CU Pan up stream of ice. MV Stream of ice shooting into air. MV Stream of ice passing in front of sun. MV Channel dug by snow plough. Snow plough still operating CU Snow plough at work in partly-cleared channel. LV Monk’s Hospice. Snow plough at work in channel leading to it. LV Hospice. MV Cleared channel. (Dupe Neg.) 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 Paramoun