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1,000,000 Workers Wanted AKA Sir Samuel… 1938
Description
Titles read: "1,000,000 WORKERS WANTED".
Location of events unknown, probably London.
Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare makes a speech from the grounds of the new school for training Air Raid Precaution officers. He asks for a million men and women to join in this great body of helpers...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 16357
- Sort Number:
- 38/024
- Time in/Out:
- 01:49:00:00 / 01:49:53:00
- Canister:
- 38/24
- Film ID:
- 955.62
- Issue Date:
- 24/03/1938
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