Royal Marines Volunteer Boys Corps Tattoo 1961

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Portsmouth, Hampshire

Various shots of young Marine recruits doing a musical ride of wickerwork horses. Various shots of a siege on a castle with boys in period costume. Smoke is used plus a field gun. GV. Whole corps on arena for final. LS. 2 boys trumpeters on castle battlements. GV. Pan...

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Cataloguer:
James
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
85616
Sort Number:
UN 3518 A
Time in/Out:
01:07:46:00 / 01:16:37:00
Canister:
UN 3518 A
Film ID:
2986.07
Issue Date:
1961

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