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Croxdale - Blowing Up Building 1938
Description
Title reads - Croxdale.
Blowing up building, Durham.
M/S of old building with holes in the roof. M/S of soldiers inside chipping at the brickwork to insert explosives. M/S of a big tower. Various shots as men put explosives in the bottom of the tower. M/S as the plunger is depressed,...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Emma
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Mute
- Media URN:
- 18122
- Sort Number:
- 38/080
- Time in/Out:
- 01:36:41:00 / 01:37:10:00
- Canister:
- 38/80
- Film ID:
- 983.27
- Issue Date:
- 06/10/1938
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