Good-Bye To The Circus 1964

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Blackheath, London & Southampton, Hampshire.

Item all about the circus. Chipperfield's Circus is leaving Britain for Africa.

Sequence showing group of young boys sneaking into the big top by scrambling underneath the canvas. Various shots of an evening's entertainment in the big top....

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Data

Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
3630
Sort Number:
CP 521
Time in/Out:
01:51:51:00 / 01:58:58:00
Canister:
CP 521
Film ID:
303.08
Issue Date:
17/12/1964

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