Motion Pictures Get Moving 1948

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Full title reads: "MOTION PICTURES GET MOVING".

Teddington, Middlesex.

Front view of Danny Kaye, followed by a crowd of workers rushing up steps of the new Warner Bros Teddington studio. Danny Kaye cuts the tape to formally open the studio. Back view of workmen entering building....

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
46283
Sort Number:
48/012
Time in/Out:
01:55:30:00 / 01:56:51:00
Canister:
48/12
Film ID:
1420.36
Issue Date:
09/02/1948

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