Slum Clearance In Johannesburg 1937

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Title reads: "Slum clearance in Johannesburg".

Johannesburg, South Africa.

Various shots of Prospect Town - a poverty stricken shanty town inhabited by black population. We see a group of men moving a piano and people packing up their belongings. The inhabitants and their belongings...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
13993
Sort Number:
37/082
Time in/Out:
01:22:03:00 / 01:23:07:00
Canister:
37/82
Film ID:
939.30
Issue Date:
14/10/1937

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