Cardinal Pacelli Elected Pope 1939

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Full titles read: "CARDINAL PACELLI ELECTED POPE"

L/S's of crowds of people in St Peters Square in Rome, Italy. They start to cheer as a puff of smoke rises above the Sistine Chapel. L/S and M/S of the first Cardinal Deacon announcing that Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli has chosen the name of Pius...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
19154
Sort Number:
39/019
Time in/Out:
01:00:03:00 / 01:01:26:00
Canister:
39/19
Film ID:
1003.01
Issue Date:
06/03/1939

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