Sea Drama: Graphic Scenes As Airliner Hits Ocean
Sea Drama: Graphic Scenes As Airliner Hits Ocean
Coast Guard Films, soft focus. Scenes of unique pictorial drama - the actual ditching of a Stratocruiser with 31 aboard, 1,000 miles out from San Francisco. Films made from a coast guard cutter standing by record the big plane's plunge into the pacific, and the rescue of the passengers and crew - close-up drama at sea. Establishing shot - The crippled Stratocruiser shot from the coast guard cutter. Cutter up - You see a fire on the plane near the tail end. CUS - The coast guard cutter Pontchartrain maintains a vigil ready to swing into action when the big plane sets down. View from deck of the cutter - Off in a distance you can hardly see the plane as it is landing in the ocean but you do see a huge amount of water mounting in the sea as it sets down. Off the deck of the cutter - Life boat rowing towards the plane that 3/4's of the plane's fuselage sticking out of the water. MS - The other part of the fuselage sticking out of the ocean and starting to sink. MLS - Part of the fuselage sinking. Off the deck of the cutter - The life boat and some of the survivors. MLS - Tail section of the plane sinking. Looking up - Sailors looking down at the survivors. CUS - Survivors being wrapped in blankets and taken off the life boat and on to the cutter. MS - Looking down - Survivors walking around the deck of the cutter. MS - The Pontchartrain pulling into port people standing at the railings waving to the people on the dock. MS - Survivors disembarking on to the shore. CUS - Captain of the plane kissing his wife.