Dame Margot Safe Home 1959

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Titles read: "LONDON AIRPORT - DAME MARGOT SAFE HOME".

Airliner taxiing in front of press men. L/S of press men behind barriers at the bottom of the stairs leading from airliners, waiting for ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn to appear. Commentator explains she was back in Britain only two days...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50526
Sort Number:
59/034
Time in/Out:
01:51:48:00 / 01:53:04:00
Canister:
59/34
Film ID:
1575.09
Issue Date:
27/04/1959

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