Saving The Kiddies 1921

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Item title reads - Saving the Kiddies - free distribution of soup and bread to miners' children. Newcastle.

Children emerge from the building with bread and soup in cans and jugs, others are queuing outside. M/S of a small child in a bobble hat carrying a soup can out. M/S of an older boy and...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
22250
Sort Number:
G 0770
Time in/Out:
01:05:14:00 / 01:05:43:00
Canister:
G 770
Film ID:
234.05
Issue Date:
09/05/1921

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