Sportshots No 6 - Ted Phelps 1933

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Titles read: "Sportshots No. 6 - Popular sports and sportsmen under the cine-camera lens. Ted Phelps, World's Sculling Champion. With explanatory commentary by Charles Eade - Sports Editor, Sunday Express."

Putney, London.

M/S of the River Thames at Putney; Ted Phelps rows into view...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37385
Sort Number:
PT 149
Time in/Out:
01:15:29:00 / 01:17:55:00
Canister:
PT 149
Film ID:
1070.09
Issue Date:
30/01/1933

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