Front Line Town Issue Title - Back Of The… 1944

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Front line town.

Dover, Kent.

L/S of countryside. M/S of children playing near the church. C/U as they play with model aeroplane. Children and adults look to the skies at the sound of 'planes flying over. A blacksmith stops shoeing a horse and looks up. C/U of another elderly man looking...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50640
Sort Number:
NSP 437
Time in/Out:
01:08:36:00 / 01:11:05:00
Canister:
NSP 437
Film ID:
1580.05
Issue Date:
14/08/1944

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