Ideal Home Exhibition 1959

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Titles read: "OLYMPIA - IDEAL HOME EXHIBITION".

London.

Pan across exhibition hall at the Ideal Home Exhibition. M/S of a replica of Blenheim Palace in the hall.

People wander about a set of modern houses set amongst trees with a pond on the foreground. A man comes out of...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50435
Sort Number:
59/019
Time in/Out:
01:22:13:00 / 01:23:48:00
Canister:
59/19
Film ID:
1571.18
Issue Date:
05/03/1959

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