The Victoria Line 1965

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London.

Camera pans across wasteland and construction sites. Narrator explains how underneath the skyscraper blocks of London an engineering revolution is taking place. Scenes of construction work as the London Underground Victoria Line is built. Men at work. Underground - segments of metal...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
3806
Sort Number:
CP 529
Time in/Out:
01:00:26:00 / 01:05:48:00
Canister:
CP 529
Film ID:
321.01
Issue Date:
11/02/1965

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