Alexandra College Sports 1923

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Item title reads - Alexandra College Sports. Ladies "Field Day" at Milltown. Ireland.

L/S as girls in gym slips race up the field and run through the finish line. Various shots of races including three-legged, and wheelbarrow, they all collapse and laugh, one girl is helped up. Various shots...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
23685
Sort Number:
G 0977
Time in/Out:
01:07:06:00 / 01:09:31:00
Canister:
G 977
Film ID:
304.09
Issue Date:
07/05/1923

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