With The Royal Tank Corps 1940

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Full title reads: "With The Royal Tank Corps."

VS of hundreds of tanks advancing en masse and rapidly across wooded countryside, good CUs of tanks coming at camera and several shots of tanks breaking down trees as they advance on manoeuvres. Some of the tanks start firing.

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
21093
Sort Number:
40/072
Time in/Out:
01:23:27:00 / 01:24:11:00
Canister:
40/72
Film ID:
1055.24
Issue Date:
05/09/1940

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