Can You Whistle - In Your Throat? 1931

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Introductory intertitle reads: "Meet Jean Margaret Henderson, (A little ten-year-old prodigy from Hull) who can!" M/S of a blonde girl standing in front of a piano in a studio setting. She is quite posh and says "I am the little girl who whistles in her throat. Now first of all I will give you a few...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50692
Sort Number:
PSP 706
Time in/Out:
01:16:46:00 / 01:18:16:00
Canister:
PSP 706
Film ID:
1582.09
Issue Date:
15/10/1931

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