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Dark Harvest 1940
Description
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...
Data
- 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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