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Ceylon To-Day [sic 1942
Description
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...
Data
- 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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