Caught By The Camera No. 41 1935

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Description

Titles read: "Caught by the Camera".

Various locations of events.

M/S of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy. Not to be outdone, we see the Timple Church in Bristol.

In Stroud, Gloucester, we see the very top of a church steeple in a graveyard (?). An old man pushes a lawnmower...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
38951
Sort Number:
PT 276
Time in/Out:
01:15:22:00 / 01:16:31:00
Canister:
PT 276
Film ID:
1118.09
Issue Date:
08/07/1935

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  • "Timple Church in Bristol" - the commentator's cut-glass English has caught the cataloguer out there, this is the Temple Church........

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tem
    ple_Church,_Bristol

    "we see an old bus" - this is the "Galloping Goose No. 3", of the Rio Grande Southern railroad. More information on the vehicle, (though operating in a different colour), can be found here......

    http://drgw.free.fr/RGS/Goo
    se/Goose_en.htm

    jamied 14th Jun 2012

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