New Electricity Connection 1969

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New electricity connection. Holland

CU Man stepping down insulator at a very great height in Holland. Zoom back to GV to show the man walking down the insulator. He steps onto wires, nonchalantly, and starts to move back on his behind. Zoom in to CU. GV Other men working connecting cables....

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
57586
Sort Number:
69/092
Time in/Out:
01:22:49:00 / 01:23:45:00
Canister:
69/92
Film ID:
2233.17
Issue Date:
13/11/1969

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