For Seabed Oil Search 1965

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Item title reads - For seabed oil search.

First floating drilling rig built in Britain - Clydebank, Scotland.

L/S pan Gareloch Head where the oil rig is moored. Various good shots of the rig. Pan down rigging and derrick. L/S pan from the rigging to the helicopter landing platform....

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
55548
Sort Number:
65/063
Time in/Out:
01:10:23:00 / 01:11:14:00
Canister:
65/63
Film ID:
1814.08
Issue Date:
05/08/1965

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