Variety Club Lunch 1968

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No title - Variety Club luncheon for sporting personalities. Savoy Hotel, London.

L/S guests at Variety lunch. M/S pan down from Variety Club canopy to Olympic torch 1958. C/U the Marquis of Exeter. Various shots boxer Henry Cooper. C/U Jim Wicks. C/U Billy Walker. C/U Harry Levene. C/U Fred...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
56619
Sort Number:
68/004
Time in/Out:
01:53:58:00 / 01:54:57:00
Canister:
68/4
Film ID:
2051.37
Issue Date:
11/01/1968

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