Footage of the new ship the 'Carole Lombard' being launched by Clark Gable and Irene Dunne.
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Short Summary
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Description
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Data
- Film ID:
- 2078.07
- Media URN:
- 75578
- Group:
- Unissued unused
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 1940 - 1949
- Sound:
- Sound
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:00:47:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:19:36:00 / 01:20:23:00
- Canister:
- UN 1422 A
Unknown user says
Reducing the clip's current date range of 1940-49, the launch took place in January 1944
"M/S of the bow of the new ship 'Carole'" - the ship is actually called the "SS Carole Lombard", (indeed "Carole Lombard" can be fully seen on the bow).
Also visible on the launching platform are, at 00:25, movie producer Louis B Mayer, then at 00:27 Mrs Walter Lang, Lombard's former secretary.
Here's a press photo from the press launch, confirming all those details....
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1970&dat=19440118&id=sUgyAA
AAIBAJ&sjid=cOMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=59
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