Air Raid Booties Issue Title - All's Well… 1940

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Showing how to make "a bootiful bootie that can be slipped on in a jiffy before you slip out to the shelter". It is made out of scraps of rubber "the best protection against blast". (Your feet will be OK, the rest of you gets blown to kingdom come) We see a...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
43036
Sort Number:
NSP 241
Time in/Out:
01:31:01:00 / 01:32:33:00
Canister:
NSP 241
Film ID:
1296.16
Issue Date:
14/11/1940

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