Double Disaster In Japan 1963

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Unissued / Unused material -

Title reads: "More Than 600 Die In Japan's Double Disaster". American voiceovered newsreel material.

Japan.

GV Over roof tops of Japanese town of Omuta. GV Pit head of disaster mine. VS At pit head showing Japanese miners, the small train comes...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
88373
Sort Number:
UN 3827 E
Time in/Out:
01:08:27:00 / 01:09:58:00
Canister:
UN 3827 E
Film ID:
3137.04
Issue Date:
1963

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