Deeds Not Words 1921

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Item title reads - Deeds Not Words! Whilst Nations are still talking at Washington - Great Britain is really disarming. Farnborough, Hampshire.

M/S of a big gun carriage. Various shots of men breaking up the gun carriages and carrying the wheels off.

Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
22683
Sort Number:
G 0836
Time in/Out:
01:38:28:00 / 01:39:17:00
Canister:
G 836
Film ID:
250.35
Issue Date:
26/12/1921

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British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
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