Home Movie: 003317 (silent)

Description: Black and white document of flooded Ottumwa, Iowa and surrounding
areas, showing flooded streets, damaged buildings, sand bags, and efforts to remove water from the Des Moines and Wapsipinicon Rivers flowing high.

can notes: "1947 Flood at Ottumwa, 6/22/47; Davenport - Clinton Road, June 47"

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Subjects: 1940s,Nature,Water,Natural disasters,Road trips

Tags: rivers; floods; railroad tracks; Des Moines River; downtown; main street; pump truck; cinema marquee; theater marquee; flooded streets; sand bags; Sears Roebuck store; fallen homes; Iowa US-67 sign; filmed through windshield; filmed from moving vehicle; driving POV; driving through water; windshield wipers; Wapsipinicon River; railroads; water being pumped out of buildings; flood-damaged houses; flood damage

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0141, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1947-06-22

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Geographical Location: USA; Iowa; Ottumwa, Iowa

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle circle, triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 113