Choir-Boy Congress AKA Choirboy Congress 1946

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Item title reads - Choirboy congress.

Paris, France.

Various shots of the singers of the wooden cross, boys adopted and trained to sing by a French religious institution. They wear white cassocks and walk in procession towards the camera. C/U of a priest carrying a wooden crucifix....

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
45759
Sort Number:
46/063
Time in/Out:
01:33:15:00 / 01:34:34:00
Canister:
46/63
Film ID:
1406.17
Issue Date:
08/08/1946

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