Road Skating! 1933

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Titles read: "Road Skating! In Berlin, too, and on asphalt, for the skates, though they look like ice skates, are a new type, running on small rollers."

Great shots of a man roller-skating along the road leading away from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. He performs several turns, pirouettes...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37462
Sort Number:
PT 171
Time in/Out:
01:56:59:00 / 01:57:54:00
Canister:
PT 171
Film ID:
1074.27
Issue Date:
03/07/1933

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