"Nora" Runs Amok 1940

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Full title reads: "'Nora' Runs Amok".

VS of the Dutch steamship "Nora" lying on her side on a beach with the smashed holiday pier behind her, with shots showing the smashed pier which the ship went through after being thrown by the tide from the beach where it had been beached after hitting...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20576
Sort Number:
40/010
Time in/Out:
01:02:07:00 / 01:02:42:00
Canister:
40/10
Film ID:
1035.02
Issue Date:
01/02/1940

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