Comedian Helps Cabinet Minister AKA Electioneering… 1920

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London.

Intertitle: "COMEDIAN HELPS CABINET MINISTER. Mr. Billy Merson 'electioneers' on behalf of Dr. Macnamara, Coalition Candidate for Camberwell".

L/S of a crowd of men, all wearing hats, pan to young man giving a speech from the back of a cart, a double decker bus drives past...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
21451
Sort Number:
G 0655
Time in/Out:
01:26:40:00 / 01:27:31:00
Canister:
G 655
Film ID:
208.23
Issue Date:
01/04/1920

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