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The Year's Biggest Explosion AKA Year's… 1938
Description
Item title reads - Year's greatest explosion.
Germany.
L/S of newly built roads, the pans across the materials. L/S of people gathered. M/S of trip switch flicked upwards, L/S of an explosion in the earth. L/S of the hillside. M/S of people watching. L/S of huge explosion as hillside...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Emma
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Mute
- Media URN:
- 18267
- Sort Number:
- 38/102
- Time in/Out:
- 01:52:02:00 / 01:52:47:00
- Canister:
- 38/102
- Film ID:
- 989.66
- Issue Date:
- 22/12/1938
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