Mule Contest; Other Sports AKA Military… 1914-1918

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Reading, Berkshire.

Military Sports at Reading. Soldiers participate in silly sports as entertainment for an audience. Opens with quick shots of unknown sport: jousting in wheelbarrows?! Man wearing only shorts and a medallion on a chain; covered with tattoos; sits in a wheelbarrow holding...

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Cataloguer:
Cheri
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
71305
Sort Number:
ON 012 N
Time in/Out:
01:34:49:00 / 01:35:37:00
Canister:
ON 012 N aka G 0340 A
Film ID:
1850.30
Issue Date:
1914 - 1918

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