Cinetopicalities In Brief No. 87 1939

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Titles read: "CINETOPICALITIES IN BRIEF".

Various locations of events.

In New York, United States of America, we see a new device that allows radio listeners to vote in polls. Each voting home has a little voting clock attached to their radio and the announcers at the broadcasting...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
41186
Sort Number:
PT 505
Time in/Out:
01:50:59:00 / 01:52:55:00
Canister:
PT 505
Film ID:
1194.28
Issue Date:
04/12/1939

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