Jack Tar's Peacetime Training 1930

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Filmed at Portsmouth, Hampshire.

"The mere mention of Jack Tar generally conjures up visions of the vasty deep and the great ships of our Navy." reads an introductory intertitle. L/S of a battleship steaming along. The story is about how "Tars" must be taught a trade so that he has something...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
36402
Sort Number:
EP 150
Time in/Out:
01:05:53:00 / 01:09:00:00
Canister:
EP 150
Film ID:
898.04
Issue Date:
26/05/1930

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