Rest Home For Horses 1955

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Home of Rest for Horses, Borehamwood (Boreham Wood), Hertfordshire.

Film begins with shots of holidaymakers on the beach - including people asleep in deck chairs. Narrator states that not only people need holidays, so do animals. "The working horse, for example, dependable and willing, he...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1940
Sort Number:
CP 037
Time in/Out:
01:52:16:00 / 01:55:12:00
Canister:
CP 037
Film ID:
33.21
Issue Date:
12/09/1955

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