A Great Splash 1934

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Full title reads: "A GREAT SPLASH - Two hundred & seventy take the plunge in annual swim through Paris."

Paris, France.

Ladies dive into Seine from the base of one of the Paris bridges and start swimming - this is an annual swim through Paris competition which this year has 270 entries....

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
8837
Sort Number:
34/072
Time in/Out:
01:28:27:00 / 01:29:47:00
Canister:
34/72
Film ID:
789.17
Issue Date:
05/09/1934

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