Physical Fitness 1936

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Description

Item title reads - Physical fitness. Government's concern for the nation.

Battersea, London.

M/S of schoolboys doing star jumps, the camera pans across the rows to Sir Kingsley Wood, the Minister of Health, and Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Education who are watching....

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
13208
Sort Number:
36/090
Time in/Out:
01:32:08:00 / 01:33:21:00
Canister:
36/90
Film ID:
897.19
Issue Date:
09/11/1936

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