Shakespeare's Birthday - A Royal Occasion 1950

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Full title reads: "Stratford-on-Avon. Shakespeare's Birthday - A Royal Occasion".

Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire.

VS of Anne Hathaway's Cottage. Tourists wander around.

VS Royal Car arrives carrying King George VI, Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother) and Princess Margaret....

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
47820
Sort Number:
50/033
Time in/Out:
01:05:10:00 / 01:07:17:00
Canister:
50/33
Film ID:
1466.07
Issue Date:
24/04/1950

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