The Super Ladder 1934

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Titles read: "The Super Ladder".

Paris, France.

Various shots of the Paris Fire Brigade trying out their new ladder, the highest of its kind in France. It is opened out, telescopically, before Notre Dame, and a fireman climbs up it to sit on the very top - level with the upper storeys...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
38520
Sort Number:
PT 240
Time in/Out:
01:37:45:00 / 01:39:11:00
Canister:
PT 240
Film ID:
1106.19
Issue Date:
29/10/1934

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