Combating Tientsin Floods (1939)

Full titles read: “COMBATING TIENTSIN FLOODS“ L/S’s of numerous people riding their horse and carts through the flooded streets of Tientsin in China. L/S’s of people building walls with sandbags and moving the water away using buckets. Several good shots of the flooded town including refugees leaving the city in large number and trams moving through the streets. Cataloguer’s note: Soundtrack for this item is missing. 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