Selected Originals - City Freedom For Queen… 1953

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Selected originals (offcuts, selected scenes, out-takes, rushes) for story "City Freedom for Queen Mother" 53/84.

Guildhall, London.

This is very similar material to one seen in newsreel story. Lord Mayor gives the Freedom of the City and gift to Queen Mother (short speech). She accepts...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
28936
Sort Number:
53/084 B
Time in/Out:
01:41:14:00 / 01:43:52:00
Canister:
53/84 B (Selected Originals)
Film ID:
124.21
Issue Date:
02/11/1953

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