Durbar For Queen 1961

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Item title reads - Durbar for Queen.

Queen Elizabeth II attends two Durbars in her honour. Ghana.

Various shots of tribal chiefs from the Ashanti region gathered in the sports stadium at Kumasi. They are dressed in very colourful robes. M/S as a police escort accompanies Queen Elizabeth...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
70361
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:13:10:00 / 01:20:57:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
1211.04
Issue Date:
1961

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