Towards Ten-Thousand! A Bernese Alps Study… 1932

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Bernese Alps, Switzerland.

Title reads: "Towards Ten-Thousand! A Bernese Alps Study".

Introductory intertitle reads: "Leaving the sheltered valley, en route for the mighty top of Niesen, towering high into the clear Swiss air - "

L/S of group of holidaymakers walking towards...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
62398
Sort Number:
PSP 722
Time in/Out:
01:49:18:00 / 01:50:42:00
Canister:
PSP 722
Film ID:
2014.23
Issue Date:
04/02/1932

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