Fire Brigade Sports 1938

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White City Stadium, London.

Various shots of new auxiliary firemen putting on a display of fire fighting at the 36th Annual Athletic Meeting of the London Fire Brigade. In the trailer pump competition they assume a bomb has struck a house, so bring out a dummy woman and put her on a stretcher,...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
17975
Sort Number:
38/067
Time in/Out:
01:24:31:00 / 01:24:59:00
Canister:
38/67
Film ID:
977.28
Issue Date:
22/08/1938

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