Drama Of The Arctic: 13 Men Face Ice Cap… 1949

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Full title reads: "Drama of the Arctic: 13 Men Face Ice Cap Terror".
Introductory Intertitle reads: "First pictures from Greenland show rescue of crashed US airmen from Snow waste after an 18 day death threat".

Greenland.

GV Aerial shot arctic wastes of Greenland. Aerial view of...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
45647
Sort Number:
49/001
Time in/Out:
01:12:23:00 / 01:14:08:00
Canister:
49/1
Film ID:
1403.07
Issue Date:
03/01/1949

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