Item title reads - World’s most terrible explosion. Whole town wiped out and thousands killed and injured in awful disaster at Baden Dye Works. Germany.
Intertitle - ’First pictures taken by our own Staff Cameraman who flew to and from scene of disaster.’
L/S of the dye work’s wreckage, the camera pans across it, people walk about amongst it. M/S of people walking away from the buildings, the camera pans across the wreckage again. M/S of half destroyed buildings as people walk past. M/S of men ladling out soup to injured and children.
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