Duke Of Connaught With Smuts In Pretoria… 1920

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Pretoria, South Africa.

Intertitle: "South Africa's New Governor General. Exclusive pictures of arrival of H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught".

Various shots of Prince Arthur and Jan Christian Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, standing on a large balcony with Romanesque columns...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
22049
Sort Number:
G 0731
Time in/Out:
01:50:55:00 / 01:52:07:00
Canister:
G 731
Film ID:
224.42
Issue Date:
27/12/1920

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