May Wedding Roll 1 1960

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Description

A documentary about the marriage of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones.

Film begins with a montage of images of banners, metal crowns and flower arrangements decorating the streets. Two young women buy a souvenir newspaper. Crowds of people at dusk mill around the approach to Buckingham...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
70373
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:00:02:00 / 01:06:12:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
1213.01
Issue Date:
1960

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