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Aloft Over Alaska! 1940
Description
Titles read: "Now Pathetone Lightens The 'Blackout' With - ALOFT OVER ALASKA!"
Vancouver, British Columbia.
Various shots of a seaplane being fuelled and the crew and Eskimo guide getting ready for take off for a reconnoitre trip to Alaska for a new highway. Several aerial shots of...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 41442
- Sort Number:
- PT 515
- Time in/Out:
- 01:28:37:00 / 01:29:39:00
- Canister:
- PT 515
- Film ID:
- 1198.16
- Issue Date:
- 12/02/1940
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