Exercise "Sleeping Beauty" 1956

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Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

GV. Ships moored in dock (title super over). SV. Two destroyers alongside the jetty with guns covered. SV. Gun turrets covered in plastic. LV. Sailors leaving a train, & CV. TV. Man cutting through the covering of a turret, & CV. TV. Sailors removing the protective...

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Cataloguer:
Bond
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
31550
Sort Number:
56/021
Time in/Out:
01:40:12:00 / 01:41:20:00
Canister:
56/21
Film ID:
571.33
Issue Date:
12/03/1956

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