Pigeons Lead Sales Drive 1959

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Titles read: "LONDON - PIGEONS LEAD SALES DRIVE".

General elevated view of London (remainder of title scene). People covered in pigeons in Trafalgar Square. A man loads boxes of pigeons onto a van. Man in pigeon loft puts a pigeon into a box. The pigeon van stops in Fleet Street and takes...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
58719
Sort Number:
59/006
Time in/Out:
01:00:27:00 / 01:03:09:00
Canister:
59/6
Film ID:
1567.01
Issue Date:
19/01/1959

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