The Queen Opens Gatwick 1958

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Full title reads: "The Queen Opens Gatwick".

Gatwick Airport, Near London.

GV Passenger department at the new Gatwick Airport. LV Control tower. SV Two men seated at control panels inside tower, one of them looking through binoculars and both wearing head phones. CU Mass of buttons...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
49475
Sort Number:
58/047
Time in/Out:
01:19:34:00 / 01:21:12:00
Canister:
58/47
Film ID:
1535.09
Issue Date:
12/06/1958

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