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Cornwall England Oil Spill Threatens Sea Birds
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keywords: cornwall england, environmental disaster, oil tanker spill, oil covered sea birds
Synopsis: A grounded tanker is responsible for thousands of sea birds being covered in crude oil as volunteers race to save the birds by cleaning them with a detergent plus scenes of the Cornwall beaches covered with tar-thick oil...(read more)
- Date: 1967
- Duration: 00:00:43
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: England









Cornwall England Oil Spill Threatens Sea Birds
A fight for life, the lives of thousands of birds, continues at Cornwall, England. The birds were contaminated by floating crude oil from a grounded tanker. A Holland bird authority uses a chemical detergent to clean them, saving them from death. Meanwhile, the Cornwall beaches remain black with tar-thick oil.
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- Newsreels: 1967 - April 4