A School For Gliders! 1934

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Titles read: "A School For Gliders!"

Salzburg, Austria.

Various shots of people pulling a glider out of a hangar at a gliding school. A man sits in it and has a safety belt fastened around his middle. The people pull the glider along a mountainside on a line to get it airborne and...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
38369
Sort Number:
PT 226
Time in/Out:
01:41:04:00 / 01:42:18:00
Canister:
PT 226
Film ID:
1100.23
Issue Date:
23/07/1934

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  • "Robert Kronfield", in text and tags, should read Robert Kronfeld, (author of a famous book called "Kronfeld on Gliding and Soaring").

    jamied 23rd Aug 2012

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