Sport Despite Handicaps 1962

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Sport despite handicaps. Stoke Mandeville Games in Buckinghamshire.

L/S of contestants for games sitting in their wheelchairs in groups under various banners from the country they represent, in the foreground, Argentine, Belgium, France, Germany. M/S of a team competing in archery, man in foreground...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
53632
Sort Number:
62/062
Time in/Out:
01:38:19:00 / 01:39:27:00
Canister:
62/62
Film ID:
1727.27
Issue Date:
02/08/1962

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