Natures Blackout Eclipse Issue Title - Lights… 1940

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L/S's of picturesque countryside on Calvina, Cape Colony. The commentator says that scientists have arrived here to study the solar eclipse. Several shots of scientist Doctor Jackson with very large telescope. The telescopes are prepared for taking photographs of the eclipse.

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
43063
Sort Number:
NSP 246
Time in/Out:
01:24:17:00 / 01:26:56:00
Canister:
NSP 246
Film ID:
1298.15
Issue Date:
19/12/1940

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