Blood Donation 1944

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Title reads: "Blood Donation".

Ministry of Information Government official.

Location unspecified.

Bomb explodes and injured man carried away leaving puddle of blood, Wing Commander Francis Peter Dixon card details 22 Cranly Gardens Kensington, tel no. KEN 9845, Dixon speaks...

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Cataloguer:
Agnew
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
84252
Sort Number:
44/072 (TRAILERS)
Time in/Out:
01:13:50:00 / 01:15:16:00
Canister:
44/72 (TRAILERS)
Film ID:
2919.10
Issue Date:
07/09/1944

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