Robb Wilton First World War Soldier 1932

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Titles read: "Pathetone again presents Robb Wilton - the famous Variety and B.B.C. Comedian."

Pathe Studio, London.

Robb Wilton plays a soldier returning, rather late, from the First World War. He claims nobody told him it had finished. He walks onto a kitchen set dressed in a ragged...

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Cataloguer:
Ron
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
83571
Sort Number:
Turns 10 G
Time in/Out:
01:37:55:00 / 01:40:24:00
Canister:
Turns Can 10 G
Film ID:
2887.11
Issue Date:
01/08/1932

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