The Grand Glide 1934

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Description

Titles read: "The Grand Glide".

United States of America.

Various shots of a girl sliding from one end of a high rope to another by holding onto some kind of pulley with her teeth. Crowds of people watch her go from a tower along the rope, through a paper hoop and to the other end....

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
52006
Sort Number:
PSP 855
Time in/Out:
01:54:00:00 / 01:54:39:00
Canister:
PSP 855
Film ID:
1634.30
Issue Date:
23/08/1934

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