Jamaica 1958

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Jamaica, Caribbean Sea.

M/S beach with palm trees and idyllic blue sky. A local man is whittling wood out of a tree trunk to make a canoe. He looks up at a jet passing overhead. The tourists are coming. At the airport, we see a BOAC/BIWA jet , a Viscount, taxiing on the runway. A batman, with...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Margaret
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
3163
Sort Number:
CP 158
Time in/Out:
01:00:17:00 / 01:03:42:00
Canister:
CP 158
Film ID:
211.01
Issue Date:
06/11/1958

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