This Day - April 1 No 10 1925-1949

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Title reads: "This Day - April 1st". Short Documentary film about events around that date throughout the century.

Apr 1934 - Duke and Duchess of Kent in the Bahamas on their Honeymoon.
Apr 1947 - Arrival of Lord Louis Mountbatten as the last Viceroy of India. He is greeted by Jawaharlal...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
82285
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:00:08:00 / 01:13:38:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
2811.01
Issue Date:
1925 - 1949

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