Escape From Toil Reel 1 1959

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Reel 1.
British Motor Corporation Ltd presents
Escape From Toil.

Photographed and Produced by the B.M.C. Film Unit, Oxford. In conjunction with Associated British Pathe.

Car draws up at Customs post. C/U passports handed out of car and checked. Car drives over border to Switzerland....

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
70390
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:48:18:00 / 02:02:00:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
1223.05
Issue Date:
1959

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