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Frogmen For Red Cross 1960
Description
Item title reads - Frogmen for Red Cross.
Germany.
C/U notice on the bank of a river reading "bathing not permitted due to danger to life and health" in German, camera pans to five frogmen walking into the frozen river. Two of the frogmen walk in with ropes attached to their bodies,...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Emma
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 52385
- Sort Number:
- 60/016
- Time in/Out:
- 01:28:32:00 / 01:29:17:00
- Canister:
- 60/16
- Film ID:
- 1666.22
- Issue Date:
- 22/02/1960
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