How Girls Pick-Up! 1940

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Titles read: "HOW GIRLS PICK-UP!".

Brief shot of a busy street in London's West End - looks like Oxford Street.

Somewhere in the English countryside we see various shots of attractive West End shop girls working on a farm in their holidays - grooming horses, picking beans in a field...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
15726
Sort Number:
PT 544
Time in/Out:
01:41:21:00 / 01:43:02:00
Canister:
PT 544
Film ID:
1206.19
Issue Date:
02/09/1940

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YCNY! Fabulous Forties Fashion FFF - selected British countryside MATT WOLF JULY 2011 SUPERSCRIMPERS 2 World War II

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