The Circus Is Coming To Town 1946

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Item title reads - The circus is coming to town.

Location of events unknown.

Bertram Mills' circus rehearses.

Horses are paraded around the ring, one stands on raised platform in the middle. Various shots of a lady practising bareback riding on the horses, she is attached...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
46122
Sort Number:
46/094
Time in/Out:
01:02:39:00 / 01:04:33:00
Canister:
46/94
Film ID:
1416.03
Issue Date:
25/11/1946

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