Pinpointing The News 1945

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Full title reads: "PIN-POINTING THE NEWS".

CZECHS COMMEMORATE RAZING OF LIDICE
Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Czechs walking along a country road to Lidice. President Edouard Benes (aka Eduard Benes). Women of Lidice seated together, crying bitterly. Various shots of the ceremony of mourning...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
40056
Sort Number:
45/051
Time in/Out:
01:23:01:00 / 01:30:00:00
Canister:
45/51
Film ID:
1157.11
Issue Date:
25/06/1945

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