Queen Opens Airport Buildings AKA Queen… 1955

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London Airport.

GV. Inside airport building, through window, to planes (title super over). GV. London Airport. GV. Flag bedecked main building. SV. Personnel line up - pilots, etc. SV. Queen Elizabeth II stepping from car and shaking hands with Lord Latham and Boyd Carpenter, Minister of Transport...

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Cataloguer:
Bond
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
31563
Sort Number:
55/102
Time in/Out:
01:00:22:00 / 01:01:27:00
Canister:
55/102
Film ID:
559.01
Issue Date:
22/12/1955

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