Health And Beauty Display At Wembley 1939

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Full titles read: "HEALTH AND BEAUTY DISPLAY AT WEMBLEY [London]"

L/S's of hundreds of young women from the Women's League of Health and Beauty marching around Wembley stadium. The procession is lead by their leader Lady Prunella Douglas Hamilton. L/S's of the women lying on their backs on...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
14335
Sort Number:
39/048
Time in/Out:
01:45:37:00 / 01:47:08:00
Canister:
39/48
Film ID:
1009.36
Issue Date:
15/06/1939

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