Frightfulness From The Air 1940

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Full title reads: "Frightfulness From The Air".

France.

GVs. of buildings in flames in a French village after German air raid, the buildings are mainly farm buildings, wrecked by the bombing.

CU Men carrying body of young boy.

CU Bodies of a woman and her baby lying...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20837
Sort Number:
40/046
Time in/Out:
01:03:18:00 / 01:03:57:00
Canister:
40/46
Film ID:
1047.05
Issue Date:
06/06/1940

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