This Day - April 22 No 13 1921-1949

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Title reads: "This Day - April 22nd". Short Documentary film about events around that date throughout the century.

Apr 1921 - Various shots of the Miners' strike. Naval ratings come to pits to take up work mining coal. People measuring and gathering coal (not clear if 1921 or 1926). VS of pit...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
81291
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:45:11:00 / 01:58:51:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
2759.06
Issue Date:
1921 - 1949

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