Smallpox Menace AKA Small Pox 1962

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Title reads: "Smallpox Menace".

Bradford, Yorkshire.

L/S Bradford. Street scenes in Bradford. C/U newspaper board: "smallpox - latest details ... great vaccination rush". Angle shot shop sign: "Mohammed Grocer". C/U 3 Asians standing outside shop. C/U Halal butchers. C/U Asian woman....

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
53107
Sort Number:
62/006
Time in/Out:
01:21:26:00 / 01:23:34:00
Canister:
62/6
Film ID:
1709.17
Issue Date:
18/01/1962

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