This Lifeboat Can't Sink 1958

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Full title reads: "Germany. This Lifeboat Can't Sink".

Bremerhaven, Germany.

SV New plastic lifeboat designed by Gustav Kuhr rocking from side to side, hatch opened and two men stick heads out.

CU Skipper of the boat, pan to show men coming down through hatch into boat.

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50054
Sort Number:
58/094
Time in/Out:
01:23:35:00 / 01:24:26:00
Canister:
58/94
Film ID:
1559.05
Issue Date:
24/11/1958

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