American Private Citizen No 1 Arrives 1941

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Title reads: "American Private Citizen No 1 Arrives".

Location of events unknown.

Various shots of a Dakota aeroplane landing at a British airport. C/U of Wendell Wilkie stepping out of aeroplane door. C/U of Wilkie. M/S of Wilkie speaking into a microphone, a crowd of journalists...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37759
Sort Number:
41/009
Time in/Out:
01:54:27:00 / 01:57:08:00
Canister:
41/9
Film ID:
1067.41
Issue Date:
30/01/1941

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