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"A Christmassy Smash & Grab" AKA Smash And… 1932
Description
Full title reads: "London. 'A Christmassy Smash & Grab" Middlesex Hospital students raid and kidnap Father Xmas to cheer little patients."
London.
Medical students - dressed in white surgical gowns - ride on top of a van. They leap off and run into a London shop. The come out quickly...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Mark
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 5281
- Sort Number:
- 32/101
- Time in/Out:
- 01:30:04:00 / 01:31:26:00
- Canister:
- 32/101
- Film ID:
- 689.21
- Issue Date:
- 19/12/1932
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