Striving For Peace 1935

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Full title reads: "Striving for peace. Scenes at the League meeting at Geneva".

Geneva, Switzerland.

Various shots of delegates arriving for League of Nations meeting. A crowd of reporters, press photographers and newsreel cameramen wait for them. We see M. Pierre Laval, French minister,...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
12335
Sort Number:
35/072
Time in/Out:
01:47:28:00 / 01:48:34:00
Canister:
35/72
Film ID:
839.46
Issue Date:
09/09/1935

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