Tradesmen Ask Olympic Trial 1948

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Full title reads: "TRADESMEN ASK OLYMPIC TRIAL".

Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire

Boat crew in training, men rowing. The crew passing the camera and stopping, other boats seen. Men carrying boat out of water.

Bert Barry, four times world's sculling champion, instructing the...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
46263
Sort Number:
48/008
Time in/Out:
01:23:14:00 / 01:24:20:00
Canister:
48/8
Film ID:
1420.16
Issue Date:
26/01/1948

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