"Pedal-Power" 1924

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Title reads: "The Van Beuren Corporation presents Walter Futter's Curiosities "Pedal-Power" Distributed by RKO Pictures Corporation. Copyright MXMXXIX by Record Pictures - Inc." Introductory intertitle reads: "Where modern methods and inventions do not exist, pedal-power plays and important part in...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
36627
Sort Number:
EP 299
Time in/Out:
01:34:20:00 / 01:37:13:00
Canister:
EP 299
Film ID:
1004.17
Issue Date:
1924

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