A New Sport Cycle Skating 1923

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Item title reads - A new sport. It's cycle-skating, and comes all the way from Paris.

M/S of men strapping a small wheel to the side of each foot, and attaching them with braces up their calves and screws which they tighten up. C/U of one man screwing the wheel to his foot. C/U as he walks...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
23966
Sort Number:
G 1013
Time in/Out:
01:55:47:00 / 01:57:18:00
Canister:
G 1013
Film ID:
314.40
Issue Date:
10/09/1923

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