Torey Canyon Disaster (1967)

Title reads ’Security Classification of this film is confidential - . Langhurst Presents - the Torey Incident March / April 1967’. LS. Sea landscape with a rock rising from it and cloud of smoke behind. Intertitle reads ’Trenow Cove’. Pan along the beach covered in oil with people cleaning the oil with hoses. Panning shot showing the black pebbles and mud across large area of the beach - this looks like a serious ecological disaster. Close up shot of a label on barrel at the beach reading ’Oil Spill Remover’. Close up shot of the stones on the beach covered in oil. Helicopter hovering over the beach. It lands and then takes off. Intertitle reads ’Gunwalloe Church Cove’. LS. Over seacoast with blackened stain at sea in foreground. Panning air shot along the shore showing the extent of damage to water - all covered in oil. People burning oil at beach with flame throwers. Thick black smoke rising over the fire as the oil burns. Close up shots of the oil burning. Intertitle reads 31 March. Several sho