Middlesex Mental Hospital 1934

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Full title reads: "MIDDLESEX MENTAL HOSPITAL - Opened officially by H.M. The King at Shenley."

Shenley.

Top shot, pan across Elstree Studios. Sign at one of the buildings reads "British International Pictures Ltd." Camera pans to a road through Elstree with crowds on both sides waiting...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
9622
Sort Number:
34/045
Time in/Out:
01:50:49:00 / 01:51:52:00
Canister:
34/45
Film ID:
785.40
Issue Date:
04/06/1934

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