Selected Originals - Bluebird Test Run 1966

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Selected originals (offcuts, selected scenes. out-takes, rushes) for story "Bluebird Test Run" - 66/101.

Lake Coniston, Cumbria.

GV. Lake Coniston and surrounding mountains. Various shots of Donald Campbell and his engineers attending to his speedboat Bluebird before tests. LS. Bluebird...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
56135
Sort Number:
66/101 B
Time in/Out:
01:47:56:00 / 01:51:42:00
Canister:
66/101 B (Selected Originals)
Film ID:
2021.34
Issue Date:

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