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Pirie Still Champion 1954
Description
Birkenhead.
SV pan, competitors loosening up for start of race. SV Gordon Pirie shaking hands with the Mayor whilst still limbering up. SV E. L. Hardy being massaged by Scotsman. SCU crowd. LV field lined up, they start. Pan into back view. SV towards, field racing past camera. SV crowd on...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sanja
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 29286
- Sort Number:
- 54/023
- Time in/Out:
- 01:49:29:00 / 01:50:54:00
- Canister:
- 54/23
- Film ID:
- 146.37
- Issue Date:
- 18/03/1954
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