The Super Move! 1934

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Titles read: "The Super Move!"

Rock Creek Park, United States of America.

Various shots of men preparing to move a 1200-ton bridge eighty feet south in one piece, so a new bridge can be built. Below the bridge we see horses harnessed up to pull the windlasses that move the bridge....

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
38362
Sort Number:
PT 224
Time in/Out:
01:29:13:00 / 01:29:45:00
Canister:
PT 224
Film ID:
1100.16
Issue Date:
09/07/1934

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