In The Front Line AKA Entertaining The Troops 1939

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Full titles read: "IN THE FRONT LINE"

L/S of smashed railway bridge across the Rhine in Newbrissack, France. Good L/S's of Edouard Daladier, French Prime Minister with French officers at French headquarters. Various shots of British unit marching into and taking up positions in one of the forts...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20214
Sort Number:
39/089
Time in/Out:
01:11:21:00 / 01:14:24:00
Canister:
39/89
Film ID:
1033.12
Issue Date:
13/11/1939

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