Clare Home From Atlantic Flight 1940

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Description

Full title reads: "Clare Home From Atlantic Flight".

MS The flying boat 'Clare' taxiing to a halt on lake.

CU of the Captain Kelly Rogers.

VS of passengers, American volunteer airmen, coming ashore and on the quay.

LS Pan with the aircraft taking off.

Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
21046
Sort Number:
40/066
Time in/Out:
01:26:19:00 / 01:26:58:00
Canister:
40/66
Film ID:
1053.32
Issue Date:
15/08/1940

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