General Smuts Opens Agricultural Show AKA… 1922

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Rhodesia, South Africa.

Full titles read: "BRITISH BEEF IN THE COLONIES - General Smuts opens Rhodesia's biggest Agricultural Show."

M/S of General Smuts on platform. M/S of large black bulls being led in procession. C/U of large Bull.

Data

Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
23242
Sort Number:
G 0912
Time in/Out:
01:42:00:00 / 01:42:46:00
Canister:
G 912
Film ID:
282.30
Issue Date:
18/09/1922

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