Dodging Icy Death 1936

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Item title reads - Dodging icy death!

Tyrol, Austria.

L/S of snow covered mountains in the Austrian Tyrol. M/S of two men and a woman attaching themselves to a rope and collecting their picks. M/S as the camera crew also put on their ice boots and prepare for the journey. M/S as they...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
39703
Sort Number:
PT 349
Time in/Out:
01:45:45:00 / 01:47:31:00
Canister:
PT 349
Film ID:
1142.23
Issue Date:
30/11/1936

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