J. P. Coats - Sports 1923

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Item title reads - J. P. Coats sports. Over 5000 competitors enter for the famous Thread Sports. Paisley, Scotland.

M/S of a group of men and women standing about watching, C/U of the group, one man smokes a pipe. M/S of ladies in kilts doing Highland dancing on a platform, M/S as they jump...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
23990
Sort Number:
G 1017
Time in/Out:
01:26:28:00 / 01:27:38:00
Canister:
G 1017
Film ID:
316.23
Issue Date:
24/09/1923

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