Picture Paragraphs From World News - AKA… 1940

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Full title reads: "Picture Paragraphs From World News".

Norfolk, North Virginia, United States of America (USA).

VS of the keel laying ceremony by Senator Harry Bird of the battleship SS Alabama at the North Virginia Navy Yard.

(Dublin Reel)

Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20570
Sort Number:
40/019 (Dublin)
Time in/Out:
01:51:51:00 / 01:52:26:00
Canister:
40/19 (Dublin)
Film ID:
1037.45
Issue Date:
04/03/1940

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