Rural Electrification Drive AKA Way To Plenty 1948

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Full title reads: "WAY TO PLENTY".

Oxfordshire.

Angle shot of electric grid system. Angle shot of electric grid, pan down showing electric wires running across the countryside. Long shot of derelict farm. Pan, cows walking past into yard. Back view of cows into milking shed. Close...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
46487
Sort Number:
48/029
Time in/Out:
01:03:31:00 / 01:06:26:00
Canister:
48/29
Film ID:
1426.04
Issue Date:
08/04/1948

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