Clear Boys, Clear! 1940

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Full title reads: "Clear Boys, Clear!".

London.

VS of army men of the Pioneer Corps and the Royal Engineers at work with picks, shovels and pneumatic drills clearing rubble and debris from the bomb damaged streets of London.

CU One of the soldiers spitting on his hands and...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
21180
Sort Number:
40/085
Time in/Out:
01:02:13:00 / 01:03:04:00
Canister:
40/85
Film ID:
1059.02
Issue Date:
21/10/1940

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