Ceylon To-Day [sic 1942

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Titles read: "CEYLON TO-DAY [sic]".

Ceylon, India.

Various shots show the building of a new airfield in the wooded area of Ceylon. A bulldozer pushes down trees, an elephant with a man on its back lifts tree trunks with his tusks and trunk. M/S of men and women at work on the building...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44231
Sort Number:
42/082
Time in/Out:
01:11:54:00 / 01:14:27:00
Canister:
42/82
Film ID:
1340.08
Issue Date:
12/10/1942

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