Sports' Day For Warspite Boys 1920

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Grays, Essex.

Intertitle: "SPORTS' DAY - the day of all the year for boys of the 'Warspite'".

C/U of three teenage boys in sailors uniforms, one has a rubber ring around his neck with the word - WARSPITE - on.

M/S of two boys sitting on a greasy pole hitting each other with...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
21934
Sort Number:
G 0708
Time in/Out:
01:05:59:00 / 01:07:03:00
Canister:
G 708
Film ID:
220.07
Issue Date:
04/10/1920

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