Rifles - Machine Guns - Aeroplanes - Cannons 1930

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Item title reads - "Rifles - machine guns - aeroplanes - cannons are more beautiful than words" - Il Duce stirs 200,000 fascists to frenzy with challenging warlike speech. Florence, Italy.

Various shots of the huge crowd of people waving and cheering in front of a balcony, they are holding...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
19082
Sort Number:
G 1714
Time in/Out:
01:55:19:00 / 01:57:01:00
Canister:
G 1714
Film ID:
830.36
Issue Date:
26/05/1930

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