Midnight Launch AKA Mid-Night Launch Or… 1920

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Philadelphia, U.S.A.

Intertitle: "MID-NIGHT LAUNCH. Unique pictures - of a big Merchant ship taking the water - taken by the aid of flares".

Very dark, rather eerie L/S of the stern of a large vessel as it slides down a launching ramp into the sea. The smoke from the flares engulfs...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
21553
Sort Number:
G 0698
Time in/Out:
01:33:45:00 / 01:34:05:00
Canister:
G 698
Film ID:
212.28
Issue Date:
30/08/1920

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