A City Held Up AKA Glasgow Students' Rag 1932

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Full Title reads: "Scotland - A City held up - Glasgow cheerfully suffers annual 'sack' by 'bandit students' in great Charity 'Rag'."

(N.B. Parts of the Sound track are missing)

Glasgow, Scotland.

Decorated lorries driving down a city street. Dressed up people are walking...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
4620
Sort Number:
32/006
Time in/Out:
01:16:00:00 / 01:17:02:00
Canister:
32/6
Film ID:
641.13
Issue Date:
21/01/1932

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