Many Homes Collapse (1963)

Item title reads - Many homes collapse. Houses collapse after being built on unsafe ground. Brentwood, California, America (USA). Camera pans across collapsed house in Brentwood. M/S’s of the hillside dotted with collapsed houses, pan down to show cracked ground. C/U man inspecting large fissure. M/S man inspecting wrecked house. M/S wrecked house. L/S swimming pool, pan up to show house collapsed beside it. Pan across wrecked houses along a road. M/S’s interior of smashed house. M/S ’street closed’ sign. C/U notice ’Unsafe do not enter’, pan back to C/U of man who spent his life savings of £20,000 on his house. Pan with women carrying belongings from house which is not wrecked but considered unsafe. M/S as they load belongings onto a lorry. Various shots of the wrecked houses. 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 VI