# Rescuing livestock in the flooded area

Soldiers and civilians using boats to bring livestock to safety from flooded farms in Leeuwen, Limburg. The cattle are taken to higher ground. The floods are caused by the high water level of the river Meuse. - Group of soldiers trying to get a large metal rowing boat over a dike in the floodplain, 36 - cu sailing shot of the boat with soldiers among the trees in the floodplain and past farms standing deep in the water, 27 - cu's lugging calves inboard from a house door into the boat, 40" - lifting of a calf from the water into the boat, 15 - various shots of rowing boats with farmers, soldiers and cattle, 30 - Various shots of horses, cows and sheep being driven on board a ferry and sailing away. - docking of ferry and unloading of cattle, 40".

- Kind: Film
- By: Polygoon-Profilti (producer)
- Archive: [Europeana](https://www.europeana.eu/item/2051906/data_euscreenXL_https___www_openbeelden_nl_media_1969)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.