Canada - Empire Games: Athletes Arrive 1954

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Vancouver, Canada.

GV Trans Canada Airline arriving at Vancouver from Britain, with English, Scottish and Northern Ireland teams. SV Vancouver police pipe band playing. SV teams coming off plane. TV pipe band. SV Australians arriving down gangway. SV pan, Rhodesian team standing about. CU...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
29638
Sort Number:
54/058
Time in/Out:
01:22:29:00 / 01:23:40:00
Canister:
54/58
Film ID:
176.14
Issue Date:
29/07/1954

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