Mastery In Miniature! 1938

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Titles read: "MASTERY IN MINIATURE!"

Wembley, London.

At Wembley ice-rink we see six-year-old skating prodigy Beryl Bailey putting on her ice-skates and skating about on the ice. M/S of the back of Beryl's teddy bear, watching...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
40341
Sort Number:
PT 421
Time in/Out:
01:16:40:00 / 01:18:14:00
Canister:
PT 421
Film ID:
1168.09
Issue Date:
18/04/1938

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