Motor Show On Time - Despite Strike 1949

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Full title reads: "Motor Show On Time - Despite Strike".

Earls Court, London.

LV strikers congregated outside Olympia. Back view crowd listening to speaker. SV People in crowd. MV Pickets. LV strikers going back to work.

LV interior of people walking round motor show.

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
46458
Sort Number:
49/079
Time in/Out:
01:25:34:00 / 01:27:02:00
Canister:
49/79
Film ID:
1425.15
Issue Date:
03/10/1949

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