The Guillemot At Home - A Farne Islands… 1933

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Farne Islands. "

Find the draughtiest sort of rocky islets, just off the Northumbrian Coast - and there you'll meet the great Guillemot family." Moving shot from a boat of a rocky coastline. "Incidentally, it was off these islets that the immortal Grace Darling braved the peril of the storm."...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
36995
Sort Number:
EP 308
Time in/Out:
01:18:48:00 / 01:21:04:00
Canister:
EP 308
Film ID:
1036.09
Issue Date:
29/06/1933

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