Joe Beckett At Home 1920

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Southampton, Hampshire.

Intertitle: "YOUTH WILL TELL! Joe Beckett sees how he won - in the seclusion of his country house".

Various shots of boxer, Joe Beckett helping three men fix a wooden post to the edge of a wooden platform built in a garden - they could be constructing a private...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
21877
Sort Number:
G 0686
Time in/Out:
01:40:12:00 / 01:41:21:00
Canister:
G 686
Film ID:
216.21
Issue Date:
19/07/1920

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