1.
GV Village in mountain.
0.04

2.
LV People's belongings PAN to houses.
0.10

3.
SV Belongings attacked on roadside.
0.14

4.
SV Of household furniture etc. on roadside.
0.18

5.
SV PAN..Men putting furniture onto van.
0.21

6.
CU Belongings on van.
0.24

7.
SV PAN..Lorry past.
0.28

8.
CU Sign 'Passage forbidden'.
0.30

9.
LV Barred entrance to street.
0.34

10.
Men carrying furniture.
0.37

11.
SV PAN DOWN..From wall partly collapsed.
0.41

12.
ANGLE SHOT..Of cracked wall.
0.43

13.
TV Cracked wall on building.
0.47

14.
SV PAN..Woman walking towards with belongings.
0.50

15.
LV Bulging wall of house.
0.55

16.
LV Empty street.
0.58

17.
SV TILT DOWN.. From wall to rubble along ground.
1.02

18.
SV People towards carrying belongings.
1.06

19.
ANGLE SHOT.. Of bulging wall.
1.10

20.
SV PAN..From house to people carrying belongings up hillside.
1.14

21.
LV PAN..Cracked buildings.
1.17

22.
TV Women carrying belongings away.
1.20

23.
SV Wall collapsing.
1.25

24.
GV Of debris.
1.29

25.
GTV Of village PAN to houses.
1.34

26.
GV People gathered with their belongings.
1.39

27.
LV People with their belongings.
1.42



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Background: The small Italian mountain village of Levrange, near Brescia, was December 12, the scene of a major military operation. Its 300 inhabitants were evacuated - some forcibly - to nearby army barracks and temporary billets with villagers of nearby towns.

Incessant rainfall has completely under???ded the village foundations, and it is slowly but surely sliding into the valley below .... a drop of some 2,275 feet.

Furniture and personal belongings were piled high in the village square in readiness for transportation by the army trucks. While bulging and cracked walls crashed to the ground in clouds of dust, villagers continued to salvage precious effects - large and small - and stagger beneath their burden to the square.

Most of the villagers are elderly persons and children. Those able to work had migrated to France, Switzerland and other places in their search for means to support their families back at Levrange. Many of the old people defied persuasion to leave their homes, they preferred to die sooner than desert the condemned village that had been their lifelong home.