The Light Blues 1929

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Item title reads - The Light Blues cover full course in 19 minutes, 38 seconds, rowing in very fine form. Critics prophesy they will start firm favourites. Cambridgeshire.

Various shots as the boys row down the river watched by others in a boat.

Intertitle - 'E. Norman Butler - (Bow).'...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
35683
Sort Number:
G 1587
Time in/Out:
01:00:00:00 / 01:02:47:00
Canister:
G 1587
Film ID:
782.01
Issue Date:
07/03/1929

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