Dark Harvest 1940

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Titles read: "Pathetone Lightens The 'Blackout' With - DARK HARVEST!"

Gela Plains, Italian East Africa.

Various shots of African workers gathering in a cotton harvest from the fields. The cotton is sorted into bales then weighed and carried off to be loaded onto carts. In another part...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
41437
Sort Number:
PT 514
Time in/Out:
01:19:27:00 / 01:20:57:00
Canister:
PT 514
Film ID:
1198.11
Issue Date:
05/02/1940

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