Someone Is Going Short Of Christmas Spirits! 1932

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Full title reads: "America. Someone is going short of Christmas spirits! Prohibition Agents launch mass attack on rum runners' harvest time & have already captured cargoes worth millions of dollars!!

United States of America.

Men lift sacks of cargo out of the hold of a ship.

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
5272
Sort Number:
32/102
Time in/Out:
01:17:09:00 / 01:18:06:00
Canister:
32/102
Film ID:
689.12
Issue Date:
22/12/1932

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