Yangtse Heroes 1949

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Full title reads: "Yangtse Heroes (First Pictures) - Navy Wounded Return To Menaced Shanghai".

Shanghai, China.
LV GV Elevated Shanghai waterfront. LV Elevated Shanghai street crowded with rickshaws and motor vehicles. SV Towards coolie pulling rickshaw in Shanghai street. LV Elevated...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
45614
Sort Number:
49/035
Time in/Out:
01:42:29:00 / 01:44:29:00
Canister:
49/35
Film ID:
1401.31
Issue Date:
02/05/1949

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