The Heavyweights 1933

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Note: Location of the events are unknown but appears to be somewhere in the United States of America.

Full titles read: "THE HEAVYWEIGHTS - Not exponents of the horizontal, but large size ladies contesting for diving honours."

Group shots of four large looking women in swimming costumes....

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37581
Sort Number:
PT 179
Time in/Out:
01:25:41:00 / 01:26:39:00
Canister:
PT 179
Film ID:
1086.14
Issue Date:
29/08/1933

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