Benes Returns To Prague - 1945 1945

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Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Various shots of the President of Czechoslovakia Dr Edouard Benes and wife leaving a building and getting to car. Huge crowd around him singing, chanting, orchestra is playing, many in crowd in uniform, press taking photographs. Car starts moving slowly through the crowded...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
60217
Sort Number:
UN 0235 A
Time in/Out:
01:00:10:00 / 01:09:09:00
Canister:
UN 235 A
Film ID:
1627.01
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Czech Republic and Russian entry into Poland

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