Airship Mast 86 Stories In The Sky! 1931

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Full titles read: "AN AIRSHIP MAST - 86 Storeys in the Sky ! - Daring workmen construct first parking space for air traffic on Empire State Building, New York, United States of America."

L/S's of the Empire State Building. L/S's of workmen clambering over the scaffolding of the new mast at...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
36835
Sort Number:
PT 042
Time in/Out:
01:21:02:00 / 01:22:38:00
Canister:
PT 042
Film ID:
1024.05
Issue Date:
12/01/1931

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