New Star Arrives! 1940

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Titles read: "NEW STAR ARRIVES!"

United States of America.

Two-year-old Kathleen Kavanagh recites 'Sing A Song Of Sixpence' in a voice quite like Betty Boop's. At the end of the rhyme she says "Isn't that terrible? Now I want my chewing gum!" (Bribery, eh?). Then she says "Come up...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
15806
Sort Number:
PT 561
Time in/Out:
01:07:07:00 / 01:08:15:00
Canister:
PT 561
Film ID:
1212.05
Issue Date:
31/12/1940

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