Birds Eggs Issue Title Weight And Sea 1942

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Birds Eggs. Part of the WEIGHT AND SEA issue.

Yorkshire.

Various shots of elderly men walking along a cliff path. Commentator explains that "To speed up the wartime food drive" they are off to collect eggs from the cliffside nests of seabirds such as guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
49801
Sort Number:
NSP 339
Time in/Out:
01:25:44:00 / 01:27:35:00
Canister:
NSP 339
Film ID:
1552.12
Issue Date:
28/09/1942

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