Before Your Very Eyes 1960

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Item title reads - Before your very eyes.

Magicians' convention at Hastings, East Sussex.

Pan across seafront at Hastings. M/S magicians in front of the pavilion. Ted Bailey, who is wearing stilts arrives on a tall bicycle. M/S as Will Norman pedals up on part of a bed frame, he...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
53411
Sort Number:
60/080
Time in/Out:
01:18:31:00 / 01:19:42:00
Canister:
60/80
Film ID:
1720.13
Issue Date:
03/10/1960

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