Stage Door Canteen Closes 1947

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Full title reads: "Stage Door Canteen Closes".

London.

LS Couples on the floor dancing a quickstep.

CU a sprig of mistletoe hanging from the ceiling.

CU An RAF (Royal Air Force) boy kissed a WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force).

LS people singing Auld Lang...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
40413
Sort Number:
47/001
Time in/Out:
01:17:54:00 / 01:18:56:00
Canister:
47/1
Film ID:
1171.04
Issue Date:
02/01/1947

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