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South African Floods 1937
Description
Full title reads: "SOUTH AFRICA"
Various air shots (from plane) of flooded countryside in South Africa - very unusual. Dam which is to control the water in the future being built at the Vaal river. Various shots of the extremely powerful river stream pouring wildly over half completed dam -...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sanja
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 13362
- Sort Number:
- 37/005
- Time in/Out:
- 01:15:57:00 / 01:17:04:00
- Canister:
- 37/5
- Film ID:
- 909.13
- Issue Date:
- 18/01/1937
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