A City Sleeps AKA Tube "Fluffers" 1949

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Titles read: "A CITY SLEEPS"

L/S Piccadilly Circus at night. L/S Closing gates of Underground Station at night. C/U Underground sign, lights being extinguished. L/S of Piccadilly Underground Station at night, no crowds. L/S Train pulling into deserted Underground Station. Various shots of fluffers...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
34210
Sort Number:
NP 228
Time in/Out:
01:36:03:00 / 01:38:24:00
Canister:
NP 228
Film ID:
1263.26
Issue Date:
24/01/1949

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