Varsity Rugby - Oxford V. Cambridge - Dublin 1940

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Full title reads: "VARSITY RUGBY".

Oxford, Oxfordshire.

Teams coming onto pitch and posing for photographs at the start of varsity rugby match between Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Various shots of the game with cutaways to Close up shots of people in the crowd watching. Cambridge...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
37695
Sort Number:
40/103
Time in/Out:
01:07:27:00 / 01:09:49:00
Canister:
40/103
Film ID:
1065.06
Issue Date:
23/12/1940

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