Beauty - In A Big Way! 1934

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Titles read: "Beauty - in a big way!"

United States of America.

Various shots of large women in swimming costumes being weighed by the side of an open-air pool. Several women are seen diving into the pool from the diving board; it seems to be some kind of diving competition. One sixteen-stone...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
38698
Sort Number:
PT 233
Time in/Out:
01:16:21:00 / 01:17:16:00
Canister:
PT 233
Film ID:
1104.09
Issue Date:
10/09/1934

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