All Home For Xmas 1929

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No title, paperwork reads - All home for Xmas - cameraman obtains history making pictures of our Army's last days on the Rhine.

Intertitle - 'Quite unobtrusively, detachments are leaving at frequent intervals for "Blighty."'

M/S as one soldier blows a bugle. M/S as soldiers stand...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
18607
Sort Number:
G 1644
Time in/Out:
01:46:47:00 / 01:48:42:00
Canister:
G 1644
Film ID:
802.25
Issue Date:
23/09/1929

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