Underwater Party 1950-1959

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1950's?

UNDERWATER PARTY

Various shots of a group of skin divers, wearing flippers and breathing apparatus as they congregate, eat and drink from a table and write messages to each other underwater in a swimming pool. There appears to be a slight Medieval theme with one of the divers...

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Cataloguer:
Virginia
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
81138
Sort Number:
UN 3275 C
Time in/Out:
01:48:25:00 / 01:50:35:00
Canister:
UN 3275 C
Film ID:
2750.22
Issue Date:
1950 - 1959

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