Safety Lights 1938

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Description

Titles read: "SAFETY LIGHTS".

Various locations of events.

Brief shots of ships at sea; a captain looking through a telescope. Diagram shows the first lighthouse, Ptolemy's Pharos, built at Alexandria in 300 BC. More diagrams show the location of the Eddystone, 14 miles off Plymouth,...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
40189
Sort Number:
PT 410
Time in/Out:
01:56:47:00 / 02:00:12:00
Canister:
PT 410
Film ID:
1162.29
Issue Date:
31/01/1938

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