Cheese Market 1955

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Alkmaar, Holland.

L/S of the town square. It is Friday, therefore it must be the cheese market! M/S of large round cheeses being stacked on the ground after being lifted from the back of a lorry. Camera pans along the cheeses - there is a lot of them! The cheeses are rolled along the ground...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1934
Sort Number:
CP 035
Time in/Out:
01:39:13:00 / 01:41:01:00
Canister:
CP 035
Film ID:
33.15
Issue Date:
29/08/1955

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