Chenega is Gone

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Film Date
1964
Film Reference Number
KPIX 146810
Description
KPIX-TV documentary from c1964 about Chenega a village on the island of Chenega in Prince William Sound Alaska which was destroyed by a tsunami caused by the Good Friday Earthquake on March 27th 1964. Features scenes of survivors describing what happened to them when the tsunami hit of them returning to the site of the old village with Pete Ashen (Red Cross - Golden Gate Chapter San Francisco) and Francis Stevens (Bureau of Indian Affairs) and views of where a new village was to be rebuilt at Tatitlek. This is a film by Ray Hubbard R.E. Pusey Jr. and Dick Williams.
Format
16mm b&w optical sound film
Availability
DVD Screeners 144 and 145