Taking The Plunge At Alleyn's School Dulwich 1938

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Alleyn's School or Dulwich College, London.

Various shots of schoolboys running in a cross-country race. At one point they have to leap over hurdles and come down into a puddle of water. Schoolboys watching at the hurdle take photographs of the boys landing in water. The first boy through the...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
sound
Media URN:
16346
Sort Number:
38/017
Time in/Out:
01:40:46:00 / 01:41:21:00
Canister:
38/17
Film ID:
955.51
Issue Date:
28/02/1938

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