Water Scooters 1956

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Ruislip Lido, Middlesex.

Girls from the Windmill Theatre demonstrate the fun of water scooters. Girls in swimsuits and high
heels carry their scooters to the water. The girls take off their wraps. M/S as the girls launch the red plastic water scooters. C/U blonde Perin Lewis, who is standing...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Margaret
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1219
Sort Number:
CP 091
Time in/Out:
01:55:03:00 / 01:57:15:00
Canister:
CP 091
Film ID:
53.25
Issue Date:
24/09/1956

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