Goodbye To Coupons - Wilson 1949

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Full title reads: "Goodbye To Coupons - Wilson".

MS President of the Board of Trade, Harold Wilson (resplendent with moustache and pipe) announces the scrapping of clothes rationing.

Cataloguer's Note - Wilson is really bad at reading his cue cards and is looking off camera for much...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
45806
Sort Number:
49/022
Time in/Out:
01:45:38:00 / 01:46:58:00
Canister:
49/22
Film ID:
1407.35
Issue Date:
17/03/1949

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