The Seaman Who Gave The Postscript 1941

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Item title reads - The seaman who gave the postscript.

Probably filmed at Pathe studios, London.

M/S as merchant seaman Frank Laskier walks on with a stick, C/U of his badge. He talks about the postscript he gave on the B.B.C. recounting the time his friends were killed and he was...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
39426
Sort Number:
41/081
Time in/Out:
01:14:30:00 / 01:16:19:00
Canister:
41/81
Film ID:
1133.09
Issue Date:
09/10/1941

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British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
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