The British Legion AKA Profile Of Remembrance… 1968

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A man on motorbike learning streets around London - trainee taxi driver. Black cab manoeuvring in a street instructed by elderly man. This is British Legion taxi drivers school in action. Several shots of Whitehall Cenotaph - man takes his bowler off as he passes. A girl...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
4517
Sort Number:
CP 722
Time in/Out:
01:51:21:00 / 01:58:11:00
Canister:
CP 722
Film ID:
465.05
Issue Date:
24/10/1968

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Malaysia

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