The Super Giant! 1939

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Titles read: "THE SUPER GIANT!"

Bedford, Bedfordshire.

Various shots of a huge one-man-operated digging crane scooping clay out of a quarry and dumping it into large vat.

Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
40684
Sort Number:
PT 458
Time in/Out:
01:54:25:00 / 01:55:43:00
Canister:
PT 458
Film ID:
1180.27
Issue Date:
02/01/1939

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