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Gracie Fields - Maidstone 1938
Description
Item title reads - Maidstone.
Gracie Fields christens a baby elephant in Kent.
The camera pans across large crowds of people. M/S of Gracie Fields making a speech, the elephant is stood beside her. She says she is going to christen the elephant with her lucky name which is Sally....
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Emma
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 17403
- Sort Number:
- 38/058
- Time in/Out:
- 01:23:20:00 / 01:24:13:00
- Canister:
- 38/58
- Film ID:
- 973.21
- Issue Date:
- 21/07/1938
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