Czech Army Day 1948

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Description

Prague, Czechoslovakia.

MS. President of Czechoslovakia Klement Gottwald in uniform, in the Presidential box at the Strahov Stadium in Prague. Item abruptly ends.

Mute. B/W.

Date found in the old record - 15/07/1948. Czech voiceover.

Data

Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
64774
Sort Number:
UN 2005 A
Time in/Out:
01:51:16:00 / 01:51:36:00
Canister:
UN 2005 A
Film ID:
2220.19
Issue Date:

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