Electrically Powered Model Planes 1958

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Birchington, Kent.

C/U shot of a great looking red model monoplane. L/S of a back garden where a young man is kneeling among the monoplanes, working on them, while older man is seen leaving a house carrying the body of a plane - wings are missing. M/S of a man placing the unfinished thing on...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1315
Sort Number:
CP 181
Time in/Out:
01:43:50:00 / 01:46:09:00
Canister:
CP 181
Film ID:
75.29
Issue Date:
16/06/1958

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