This Day - March 3 No 5 1922-1954

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Title reads: "This Day - March 3rd". Short Documentary film about events around that date throughout the century.

Mar 1948 - The last British troops leave India. Parade at docks as they leave Bombay.
Mar 1922 - Irish Republican Army (IRA) take over from British troops in Athlone, Ireland....

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
82228
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:42:13:00 / 01:55:55:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
2807.04
Issue Date:
1922 - 1954

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