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  • Short Summary

    Dutch experts send help to flooded English fens.

  • Description

    Holland (Netherlands).

    Various close up shots of the newspapers headlines announcing Dutch experts arriving to help fighting floods in Britain. CU. Dr Ringers, former Minister in the Dutch Parliament and expert in drainage, is one of the experts sent to England.

    Various shots of machinery at work filling in the Zuyder Zee and Walcheren in Holland, crowd looking on.

    Similar machinery arriving and being unloaded in England's harbour - somewhere in the Fens.

    Note - date in the old record 24/04/1947.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    2150.04
    Media URN:
    63838
    Group:
    Unissued unused
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    Sound:
    Mute
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:00:55:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:15:42:00 / 01:16:37:00
    Canister:
    UN 1667 C

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