United Nations Day - Trailer 1959

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United Nations Day - trailer.

Animation promoting United Nations Day on October 24th. Commentary encourages world peace and working together "like good neighbours". The cartoons look like childish chalk drawings on blackboard: we see stick people standing on hillside, a stickman playing with...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50745
Sort Number:
59/082
Time in/Out:
01:52:46:00 / 01:53:07:00
Canister:
59/82
Film ID:
1595.34
Issue Date:
12/10/1959

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