Motor Cycle Football Motorcycle Football 1959

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Hurst Farm, Winchfield, Hampshire.

M/S of the people unloading a truck filled with motorcycles. They put the motorcycles on the side of the road. This is not a cross country rally, informs the voiceover, but a new and exciting sport - motorcycle football. Several shots of the players getting...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1464
Sort Number:
CP 232
Time in/Out:
01:21:42:00 / 01:24:38:00
Canister:
CP 232
Film ID:
91.09
Issue Date:
08/06/1959

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