Holiday Camps AKA Holiday Camp Girls 1944

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Item title reads - 'And now a Pathe Pictorial Special - "Holiday Camps" pictured by Terry Ashwood.'

L/S of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London. The camera pans across men and women queuing up to register on a scheme where they spend their holidays on a farm helping out and getting paid...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50594
Sort Number:
NSP 429
Time in/Out:
01:13:20:00 / 01:18:22:00
Canister:
NSP 429
Film ID:
1578.07
Issue Date:
19/06/1944

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