Trailer - Stagger Holidays 1949

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Thought to be Selected Originals from late 1940s material.

A short trailer film starring Tommy Trinder encouraging people to stagger their holidays.

Comedian Tommy Trinder walks into a travel agent and facing away from the camera begins a rhyming speech encouraging people to stagger...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
59973
Sort Number:
UNSO 059 E
Time in/Out:
01:06:42:00 / 01:07:49:00
Canister:
UNSO Reel 059 E
Film ID:
1530.07
Issue Date:

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Variety (BBC4) Turns 1946 - 49

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