Bikini Competition 1961

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Clacton, Essex.

At Butlin's Holiday Camp we see several girls taking tea towels, dusters and handkerchiefs from a washing line. They run over to some tables and start to make the oddments into bikinis as part of a competition, helped by friends and boyfriends; a large crowd watches. Several...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
2144
Sort Number:
CP 350
Time in/Out:
01:40:34:00 / 01:42:20:00
Canister:
CP 350
Film ID:
155.11
Issue Date:
11/09/1961

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