Shelter Babies Dublin Issue 1942

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Titles read: "SHELTER BABIES" (Dublin issue).

Australia.

Various shots at an Australian nursery school. Children walk into a room and slide down a chute and into their air raid shelter. Babies are wrapped in blankets and pushed down the short chute by their nurses (they are safely...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
43785
Sort Number:
42/032
Time in/Out:
01:24:03:00 / 01:24:59:00
Canister:
42/32 (Dublin)
Film ID:
1324.16
Issue Date:
20/04/1942

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