"Nasti" News From Lord Haw Haw - No. 6 1940

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Full title reads: "'Nasti' News From Lord Haw-Haw".

VS of Geoffrey Sumner imitating Lord Haw Haw in a mock up of the radio studio. Another in the series of comic imitations by Geoffrey Sumner. 'Lord Haw-Haw' is busy knitting as the scene opens and has to be reminded of his duty by a Nazi Stormtrooper....

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20630
Sort Number:
40/020
Time in/Out:
01:04:23:00 / 01:06:31:00
Canister:
40/20
Film ID:
1039.05
Issue Date:
07/03/1940

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