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Professor Piccard
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Unused / unissued material - dates and locations unclear or unknown.
M/Ss of balloonist Auguste (or Jean) Piccard standing in balloon capsule. He explains that he going to study cosmic rays in the stratosphere. L/Ss of American man explaining about the hydrogen gas canisters that his company...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Howard
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 60703
- Sort Number:
- UN 0340 A
- Time in/Out:
- 01:52:20:00 / 01:54:54:00
- Canister:
- UN 340 A
- Film ID:
- 1817.17
- Issue Date:
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