Fog In London And Gracie Fields At Hospital 1938

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Item title reads - London.

Singer Gracie Fields is made Life Governor of London Hospital.

Various shots of London in the fog, including Trafalgar Square and London traffic. L/S of Gracie Fields walking down a line of nurses who applaud. M/S as she shakes hands with an official who...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
18157
Sort Number:
38/086
Time in/Out:
01:17:33:00 / 01:18:31:00
Canister:
38/86
Film ID:
987.22
Issue Date:
27/10/1938

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