Salving The "Hindenburg" AKA Salving The… 1930

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Full title reads: "Scapa Flow. Scapa Flow. Salving the 'Hindenburg'. Further efforts are being made to raise the mighty flagship of the scuttled German Fleet."

Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, Off Scotland.

Shots of the wreck of the German warship 'Hindenburg'. This film shot in 1926 shows...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
5336
Sort Number:
30/008
Time in/Out:
01:49:24:00 / 01:51:30:00
Canister:
30/8
Film ID:
691.34
Issue Date:
26/06/1930

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