Folding Caravan 1959

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Emsworth, Hampshire.

M/S of a woman sitting a little girl into sidecar attached to lambretta then taking a suitcase and strapping it at the back of the motorbike. Cut to M/S of a man pulling a caravan with a little boat on top, out of garage. C/U shot of man's hands attaching caravan to lambretta....

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1417
Sort Number:
CP 225
Time in/Out:
01:23:50:00 / 01:26:29:00
Canister:
CP 225
Film ID:
89.04
Issue Date:
20/04/1959

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  • The newspaper article from 2010, attached below, reveals that the man in this clip is Ken Strugnell.

    "Cut to M/S of a man pulling a caravan" - the caravan was made by the Southbourne Sheet Metal Company.

    "M/S of lambretta stopping at the beach" - the location here is Bosham Quay.

    http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/ne
    ws/local/caravan-advert-man-i
    n-search-for-his-screen-wife-of-5
    9-1-1255586

    jamied 13th Dec 2012

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