Nice Goes "Gay" Lner 1936

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Item title reads - Nice Goes Gay. King Carnival reigns in Riviera resort.

Nice, France.

L/S of huge floats with people dancing, people dressed as men on model pigs walk along. M/S as a man fixes a garter to a woman's stocking. Various shots of lots of big heads parading in the carnival....

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
12417
Sort Number:
36/018
Time in/Out:
01:08:51:00 / 01:10:46:00
Canister:
36/18
Film ID:
855.05
Issue Date:
02/03/1936

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