Australia Floods Aftermath (1949)

Thought to be Selected Originals from late 1940s material. Title reads: “Pathetic Return: Flood Aftermath“. Australian voiceovered newsreel material. Hunter Valley, Maitland, New South Wales, Australia. LV pan partly flooded houses. LV Partly flooded houses. Man in foreground wading through floods towards house. SV Travel shot two men standing in porch of flooded house. SV Man standing in gateway of flooded house. MV Man’s head poking from lorry cabin which is submerged. SV Exterior swimming pool with floods in foreground. SV Flooded-wrecked houses. SV Men cleaning out hallway of flooded house. SV Man pointing to line on wall which indicates height of flood. SV Furniture, bedding etc. drying off outside house. MV Two men wiping furniture outside house. LV Yard full of furniture drying off. Man wiping cupboard in background. SV Ruined radio standing on step on house. SV Woman sitting by meagre fire. MS Little girl walks along road and picks up her water-soaked rag doll and drags it alo