Old Crocks Rally AKA Veteran Car Rally -… 1940

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Description

Australia.

VS of a rally of vintage cars in Australia, many of the drivers and passengers of the old cars are dressed in clothes of the period or in fancy dress.

(Dublin reel)

N.B. Dupe of material found in 40/61 Pictured Paragraphs of The World's News.

Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
21016
Sort Number:
40/064 (Dublin)
Time in/Out:
01:01:27:00 / 01:02:17:00
Canister:
40/64 (Dublin)
Film ID:
1053.02
Issue Date:
08/08/1940

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