A Picture Comes To Life 1933

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Full title reads: "Rockingham. A picture comes to life. Bridesmaids carry 'hips and hawes' and dressed exactly as an Elizabethan picture of the wedding of an ancestress of the bride - at pretty country wedding of Miss E Culme Seymour and Cmndr M S Saunders."

Rockingham, (County unknown).

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
6056
Sort Number:
33/022
Time in/Out:
01:51:10:00 / 01:52:09:00
Canister:
33/22
Film ID:
699.41
Issue Date:
12/03/1933

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