Rural England AKA This Blessed Plot - This… 1940-1949

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A film calling for the establishment of National Parks in England. A logo with the initials CPRE (Council for the Preservation of Rural England) and the words "This Blessed Plot - This Other Eden - Demi Paradise -This England".

Intertitle "The Case for the Defence". English landscapes. Case...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
sound
Media URN:
70708
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:50:50:00 / 01:56:28:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
1609.07
Issue Date:
1940 - 1949

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