Body Culture 1934

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Full titles read: "BODY CULTURE"

M/S man lifting up a very scantily clad women up in the air. M/S of the women. The narrator says "to dance like that requires a perfect figure like this, and a body fitness of the very highest degree.

M/S's of the 'radiant heat swimming bath' designed...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37860
Sort Number:
PT 205
Time in/Out:
01:32:46:00 / 01:34:30:00
Canister:
PT 205
Film ID:
1094.21
Issue Date:
26/01/1934

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