Varsity Sports 1946

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Item title reads - Varsity sports.

White City, London.

Various shots as students from Oxford and Cambridge Universities run the 220 yards low hurdles on their inter-varsity sports day. It is won by Day and MacSwinney of Oxford. Various shots of the long jump, C/U of winner J. Morrish...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
45095
Sort Number:
46/025
Time in/Out:
01:02:55:00 / 01:04:19:00
Canister:
46/25
Film ID:
1378.04
Issue Date:
28/03/1946

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