Mussana AKA Massawa 1936

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Title reads - Massawa. Abyssinia. (Ethiopia).

L/S as the camera pans across huge amounts of supplies, stores and munitions on the dock at the Port of Massawa. They have been sent from Italy to keep the troops supplied. L/S of a policeman directing a lorry out of the dock. M/S of the "Calabria"...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
12204
Sort Number:
36/008
Time in/Out:
01:55:20:00 / 01:56:24:00
Canister:
36/8
Film ID:
851.48
Issue Date:
27/01/1936

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