Thousands Homeless After Great Fire (1940)

Full title reads: “Thousands Homeless After Great Fire“. Panama, Central America. VS night shots of fire raging through a third of the wooden houses of the city of Colon in Panama. Spectacular shots of vast blaze at night. Firemen work to put out flames. GV of the devastated city the morning after the fire. Shots of tent village for refugees made homeless by the fire. 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.