News In Flashes: Doomed Village 1952

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Tignes, France. The village is to be flooded as part of a hydroelectric scheme.

GV. Snow covered valley in which Tignes stands. Dam blocking entrance. SV. House in Tignes, village pump in foreground. LV. People discussing new hydroelectric scheme, which will drown their village. & SV. GV. Across...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
27227
Sort Number:
52/024
Time in/Out:
01:04:41:00 / 01:06:01:00
Canister:
52/24
Film ID:
21.06
Issue Date:
20/03/1952

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