Sunshine For Export 1949

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Titles read: 'Alpha Studios Present - Sunshine For Export'. c 1949

C/U of feet walking along rainy (studio) street; pan to man selling newspapers with headline 'Exports Reach Record Level' - (illustrates Britain). Cut to South African street scene where a black African man is selling newspapers...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
85633
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:00:03:00 / 01:14:11:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
2987.01
Issue Date:
1949

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