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1940 Buildings in New York are demolished to make way for new War Department offices 1940
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0:42Now PlayingDate: 8th April 1940
Location: USA
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: American Mansion Flats Dynamited
USA: New York:
EXT
BUILDING Demolishing flats: falls down & goes up again.
DYNAMITE & DYNAMITING Shoving a stick in xG, when flats demolished N.Y.
EXPLOSIONS Colossal when flats demolished in N.Y.: Smoke mass.
FLATS Large block demolished & falls down & goes up again.
United States of America; Demolition
level, knock down, destroy, destruction
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