Airship As Aerial Base Long Version & Cuts 1926

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Full title reads: "Airship as Aerial Base. New aerial history made as R.33 carries 2 one-ton aeroplanes aloft and successfully launches them into space".

Pulham, Norfolk.

L/S of the R.33 airship hovering just off the ground. M/S of underbelly of airship as it lifts into air. An aeroplane...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
26220
Sort Number:
G 1340
Time in/Out:
01:39:05:00 / 01:45:55:00
Canister:
G 1340
Film ID:
646.18
Issue Date:
25/10/1926

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