Scrapped! & Cuts 1926

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Full title reads: "Scrapped! Because we've now built our own, and better. 40,000 to German floating dock leaves for ship breakers yard to be broken up".

Portsmouth, Hampshire.

Panning L/S of enormous metal u-shaped vessel floating in harbour, ships and boats sail past it in foreground....

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Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
26248
Sort Number:
G 1330
Time in/Out:
01:23:27:00 / 01:28:30:00
Canister:
G 1330
Film ID:
636.10
Issue Date:
20/09/1926

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