Broadway Cake Walk 1921

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Description

Item title reads - Trying the Broadway Cake-Walk at the Rathmines Carnival. Ireland.

L/S as people walk over the fairground attraction with the moving floor and hold on to the rail trying not to fall off. M/S as more people join them.

Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
22508
Sort Number:
G 0809
Time in/Out:
01:08:50:00 / 01:09:42:00
Canister:
G 809
Film ID:
244.08
Issue Date:
24/09/1921

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