Home-A-Float 1960

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River Bure, Wroxham, Norfolk Broads.

M/S of a family with two young children and one older man walking along a path by a river and getting onto a modern looking houseboat; the two children run to the rear of the boat and look over the edge. We see the younger man start up a motor on the houseboat...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
2794
Sort Number:
CP 287
Time in/Out:
01:05:43:00 / 01:08:09:00
Canister:
CP 287
Film ID:
107.05
Issue Date:
27/06/1960

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