Alpine Airlift AKA Plane To The Skiing Fields 1953

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Alps, Switzerland. Skiers use a plane to get to snow fields high in the mountains.

LV. Captain Hermann Geiger taking off. Aerial view, Alps from Captain Geiger's plane. CU. Skiers looking up. LV. Towards, plane swooping low over landing fields. LV. From aircraft, approaching landing field....

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
28086
Sort Number:
53/014
Time in/Out:
01:46:01:00 / 01:46:57:00
Canister:
53/14
Film ID:
60.20
Issue Date:
02/03/1953

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