Tattoo Spectacle 1938

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Titles read: "TATTOO SPECTACLE".

Aldershot, Hampshire.

At night we see a full dress rehearsal of the 1938 Aldershot Tattoo on Rushmoor Arena in darkness. Lines of men seen in L/Ss swing clubs about and then reconstruct in costume the storming of Fort Moro in Havana in the West Indies.

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
17212
Sort Number:
38/045
Time in/Out:
01:02:36:00 / 01:04:09:00
Canister:
38/45
Film ID:
969.02
Issue Date:
06/06/1938

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