Sportshots No. 18 - Suzanne Lenglen 1933

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Titles read: "Sportshots - Popular sports and pastimes under the Cine-Camera lens - Described by Charles Eade of the "Sunday Express". This week Charles Eade takes Suzanne Lenglen for his subject."

London.

On the roof of the Gallerie Lafayette (sp?) in Regent Street we see champion...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37461
Sort Number:
PT 171
Time in/Out:
01:54:18:00 / 01:56:59:00
Canister:
PT 171
Film ID:
1074.26
Issue Date:
03/07/1933

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