Film Fanfare - No 17 Sections 1 & 2 1956

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Film Fanfare No. 17 - sections 1 and 2.

London.

Overture by Muir Mathieson and the Studio Orchestra.

Paul Carpenter introduces Peter Noble with 'Film Gossip'. He talks of Jean Simmons about to star in 'The Whole Truth' with her husband Stewart Granger and Janette Scott in...

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Cataloguer:
Ron / Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
82467
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:27:00:00 / 01:38:19:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
2823.03
Issue Date:
1956

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