A Whole City Makes Whoopee! 1933

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Full title reads: "Scotland. A whole city makes whoopee! Glasgow cheerfully suffer annual 'sack' by 5,000 'bandit' students in great Charity Rag."

Glasgow, Scotland.

University students, many in fancy dress costumes, drive through the city on decorated lorries and vans. They shake...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
5390
Sort Number:
33/008
Time in/Out:
01:20:21:00 / 01:21:22:00
Canister:
33/8
Film ID:
695.15
Issue Date:
25/01/1933

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