Japs Make Giant Diesel 1959

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Title reads: "Japs make giant diesel".

Tokyo, Japan.

The world's largest marine diesel engine nearing the completion of construction in Tokyo. Various shots of Japanese engineers and dignitaries looking at engine which fills the inside of a large building. Various C/Us of levers and...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
52868
Sort Number:
59/094
Time in/Out:
01:26:48:00 / 01:27:16:00
Canister:
59/94
Film ID:
1701.19
Issue Date:
23/11/1959

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