Blindfold Boxing 1933

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Australia.

Titles read: "BLINDFOLD BOXING - An Australian sidelight."

"Whenever that local boxing tournament looks like falling as flat as some of today's heavyweights - just put a few blindfold boxers in the ring... and have a good laugh."

L/S of two sea cadets being blindfolded...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
51455
Sort Number:
PSP 773
Time in/Out:
01:03:13:00 / 01:04:31:00
Canister:
PSP 773
Film ID:
1604.03
Issue Date:
26/01/1933

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