The Dead Sea

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

635

Date Released

23 Feb 1967

Date recorded

27 Jan 1967

Length of issue (in feet)

681

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Cotton Cliffs
2. 2Sea of Galilee
3. 3The Dead Sea
4. 4Gorilla Takes a Bath

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

Pathe synopsis: The story of the Dead Sea is the story of salt. Lot’s wife was petrified nearby and today anything and everything that these salt waters touch becomes an instant salty fossil. So, though you don’t sink in the Dead Sea, and you can lie there reading a morning newspaper, when you leave the water you shower in fresh water before the sticky salt crystals turn you into a latter day pillar of salt.

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Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

105

Story extras:

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