Caught By The Camera No. 3 1934

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Titles read: "Caught by the camera".

Various locations.

Several shots of a water mill made entirely from wood on the River Danube. It is still in use after 131 years.

We then see men on the St Wolfgang Lake in Salzburg, Austria, wearing 'water boots'. They look like little...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
38503
Sort Number:
PT 236
Time in/Out:
01:02:04:00 / 01:04:10:00
Canister:
PT 236
Film ID:
1106.02
Issue Date:
01/10/1934

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