Christmas Puddings For Forces Overseas 1938

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Item title reads - Christmas puddings for overseas.

Aldershot, Hampshire.

M/S as a huge vat of Christmas pudding mixture is poured into a mixer by two cooks. Various shots of the machine. M/S as bottles of rum are emptied into the mixer. M/S of a man filling a pudding bowl from the...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
18185
Sort Number:
38/089
Time in/Out:
01:43:18:00 / 01:44:12:00
Canister:
38/89
Film ID:
987.50
Issue Date:
07/11/1938

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