Launching Of Menelaus 1923

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Item title reads - Launch of the Holt Liner "Menelaus" by Provost Spence and Mayoress of Liverpool. Dundee, Scotland.

The camera pans across the group including the Mayor and Mayoress. M/S as Mayoress presses launching button on Union Jack covered machine and smashes bottle against side. M/S...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
23679
Sort Number:
G 0977
Time in/Out:
01:01:54:00 / 01:03:03:00
Canister:
G 977
Film ID:
304.03
Issue Date:
07/05/1923

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