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Oil For The Twentieth Century Reels 1 &… 1951
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c. 1951
Reel 1. Film which records 50 years of great British enterprise, providing a background to recent events in Persia. Transport. Cars and buses from low angle. Traffic light, shots of feet crossing road, metallic "Look Left/Right" signs in road. Office underneath a city street. C/U of...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Jenny
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 74525
- Sort Number:
- DOCS
- Time in/Out:
- 01:16:31:00 / 01:33:00:00
- Canister:
- DOCS
- Film ID:
- 2267.02
- Issue Date:
- 1951
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- oil sodaperaga2 docs sodaperaga3 TRANSPORT - PROMOTIONAL FILMS Corporate RADWAN Adul-Aziz Oil history Middle Eastern Oil Oil for the Twentieth Century
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