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Helping Hand For The Sun 1958
Description
Full title reads: "Helping Hand For The Sun".
India. A Solar Eclipse marks a large Hindu religious ceremony.
GV Pilgrims on their way to Kurukshetra to bathe in Holy waters. GV Pilgrims massed at the holy tank. LV Pilgrims on their way to the tank. SV Women carrying children. GV Pilgrims...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Mark
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 49393
- Sort Number:
- 58/034
- Time in/Out:
- 01:44:06:00 / 01:45:13:00
- Canister:
- 58/34
- Film ID:
- 1527.23
- Issue Date:
- 28/04/1958
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