The Boys And Girls In Blue! AKA The Boys… 1930

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Full titles read: "The boys (and girls) in blue! - Two minutes with the Naval Cadets - getting ready for Navy Week."

Portsmouth and Southsea, Hampshire.

M/S of a group of young Naval Cadets watching an older man as he picks up a tiny cadet and holds him in the crook of his arm; they...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
36750
Sort Number:
PT 014
Time in/Out:
01:00:38:00 / 01:03:11:00
Canister:
PT 014
Film ID:
1014.02
Issue Date:
30/06/1930

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