Gliding Into Summer 1938

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Titles read: "GLIDING INTO SUMMER".

Austrian Alps, Austria.

Several shots show men getting a glider ready for flight, taking it up a mountain on the outside of a cable car. The men carry the parts further up the snow-covered mountain, to where others are preparing their aircraft for...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
40445
Sort Number:
PT 432
Time in/Out:
01:29:11:00 / 01:30:38:00
Canister:
PT 432
Film ID:
1172.16
Issue Date:
04/07/1938

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