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The Manila Film Center is a building located at the southwest end of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Pasay, Philippines.The structure was designed by architect Froilan Hong where its edifice is supported on more than nine hundred piles [1] which reaches to the bed-rock about 120 feet below.
November 17 – Manila Film Center collapses, [7] killing 169 workers. November 24 – Typhoon Irma batters the northern part of the island of Luzon , killing more than 50 people. [ 5 ]
Manila Film Center: A major component of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the facility was the site of a construction accident. Construction was rushed as the first Manila Film Festival neared, and on November 17, 1981, the scaffolding holding the fourth floor gave way, sending workers down to be entombed in the quick-drying cement ...
17 November 1981 - During the construction of the Manila Film Center, the scaffolding [133] collapsed, [134] [135] and at least 169 [136] [137] workers fell and were buried under quick-drying wet cement. [138] Seven people were officially listed as having been killed in the accident. [139]
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Romero was born on July 7, 1924. His father was José E. Romero, the first Philippine Ambassador to the Court of St. James's.His mother was Pilar Guzman Sinco, a schoolteacher and the sister of University of the Philippines President Vicente G. Sinco who signed the United Nations Charter in 1945 on behalf of the Philippines.