Gales & Floods (1924)

Title: “Gales and floods ended the wettest Year on record - let’s hope. ’It ain’t a gonna rain no mo’ in 1925“. Floods at Shepperton. Point of view shot taken from a slow moving boat of a flooded street - water laps around the doorsteps of wooden houses. M/S of the flooded front garden of a wooden house - the ’beware of the dog’ and name sign (’Fairview’) are only just above the water. A few seconds of spacing follows. M/S of a horse and cart packed with passengers wading through the water in a flooded high street, a church spire is visible in the background. Various shots of the horse and cart passing the camera. M/S of a flooded street of terrace houses. Various shots of a crowd, mostly of children, standing on a raised bit of pavement (the road around them is flooded). L/S of people and cars walking up a flooded suburban street. Panning shot of rapidly flowing flood water, the trees sticking out of the water bend in the wind. Various shots of trees sticking out of flood water,