"More Action" Demand In Trafalgar Square 1942

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Titles read: '"MORE ACTION" DEMAND IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE'.

London.

Various shots of 30,000 people packing Trafalgar Square for a "speed up the war" demonstration. Huge portraits of leaders such as Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin are displayed....

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
43753
Sort Number:
42/027
Time in/Out:
01:31:00:00 / 01:32:09:00
Canister:
42/27
Film ID:
1322.23
Issue Date:
02/04/1942

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