Worst Snow Storm For 50 Years! 1933

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Full title reads: "Everywhere. Worst Snow Storm For 50 Years! Roads in many places impassable - communications cut - cars abandoned."

Men dig with shovels to clear roads of snow. A bus is stranded in a snow drift behind them. The bus is cleared of snow.

Intertitle reads: "... Then...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
6030
Sort Number:
33/018
Time in/Out:
01:18:31:00 / 01:19:56:00
Canister:
33/18
Film ID:
699.15
Issue Date:
02/03/1933

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