Get Under Cover! 1940

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Description

Full title reads: "Get Under Cover! (An Air Raid Warning)".

Good shots of house damaged by bombing raid.

MSs. of people in the doorways of their garden air raid shelters.

N.B. Information warning item about what to do in the event of an air raid.

Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20925
Sort Number:
40/053
Time in/Out:
01:21:28:00 / 01:22:06:00
Canister:
40/53
Film ID:
1049.19
Issue Date:
01/07/1940

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