Howard De Courcy Issue Title All Set 1942

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Animated titles show a ball of newspaper coming out of a magician's hat and unravelling to read: "HOWARD DE COURCY".

London, probably Pathe Studio.

Illusionist Howard De Courcy tears a newspaper broadsheet (The Daily Telegraph) into several small squares, telling us to take spare paper...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
49790
Sort Number:
NSP 336
Time in/Out:
01:00:00:00 / 01:02:34:00
Canister:
NSP 336
Film ID:
1552.01
Issue Date:

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