Thrilling Tank Display 1925

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Item title reads - Thrilling tank display by latest, fastest and mightiest tanks, concludes Corps' sports. Poole, Dorset.

M/S as two tanks drive across the field and stop, a man on a horse rides past in the foreground. Men jump out of the tanks and takes bits from them then lay them on the...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
19644
Sort Number:
G 1207
Time in/Out:
01:20:48:00 / 01:22:26:00
Canister:
G 1207
Film ID:
412.12
Issue Date:
16/07/1925

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