Kenya Ready C - Day - Exclusive 1953

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Kenya, Africa.

LV. The Kikuyu native village being decorated with flags. SCU. Pan Women of tribe decorating hut with flags. & LV. SCU. Small boy sticking flags into hut. A.S. Man sticking Union Jack on hut top. Several other shots of natives putting up flags in the Kikuyu reserve which the...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
28451
Sort Number:
53/040
Time in/Out:
01:00:15:00 / 01:01:39:00
Canister:
53/40
Film ID:
82.01
Issue Date:
01/06/1953

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