The Grand Slide - It's A Mountain Freak! 1933

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Location of these events is unknown.

Various shots of a mountain that is moving.

Subject to landslides, the mountain has moved a quarter of a mile in 30 days according to the narrator. Cracks have appeared on the slope and "no-one has been able to explain the antics of this huge mass-...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
51604
Sort Number:
PSP 792
Time in/Out:
01:07:24:00 / 01:07:55:00
Canister:
PSP 792
Film ID:
1610.05
Issue Date:
08/06/1933

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