News From Rome 1959

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Titles read: "NEWS FROM ROME".

General views of the stadium under construction on the site where the 1960 Olympic Games will be held in Rome.

C/U of a Roman scholar dressed in black, photographing his colleagues who are in the stadium looking around. Group of priests and scholars...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50529
Sort Number:
59/034
Time in/Out:
01:54:23:00 / 01:55:46:00
Canister:
59/34
Film ID:
1575.12
Issue Date:
27/04/1959

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