The Turkey Trot 1933

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Turkey farm in the United States of America.

Full titles read: "THE TURKEY TROT - 'Ignorance is bliss' - And it's a good job these "gobblers don't realise why they're so well fed !"

L/S's of thousands of turkeys being fed being fed corn on a turkey farm. The narrator says they are...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37637
Sort Number:
PT 187
Time in/Out:
01:11:55:00 / 01:12:39:00
Canister:
PT 187
Film ID:
1090.07
Issue Date:
23/10/1933

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