Campbell Prepares - Technicolor 1963

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This item is filmed in Technicolor.

Lake Eyre, Australia.

Various shots of the trucks and cars on salt flats of Lake Eyre, Australia, where Donald Campbell is getting ready to make world speed record trial in his Bluebird speed car. Various shots of the mechanics getting the Bluebird...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
54508
Sort Number:
63/041
Time in/Out:
01:15:06:00 / 01:17:52:00
Canister:
63/41
Film ID:
1762.08
Issue Date:
20/05/1963

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