Menace By Floods 1936

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Title missing, paperwork reads - Menace by floods. Sinking bridge in Wiltshire.

Wiltshire and Berkshire.

Intertitle - 'Danger'.

M/S of a man wading through water. M/S as lorries and cars drive through the water at Eton. M/S of people standing on steps in Maidenhead. M/S...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
12173
Sort Number:
36/002
Time in/Out:
01:17:44:00 / 01:18:59:00
Canister:
36/2
Film ID:
851.17
Issue Date:
06/01/1936

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