"Welcome Home Charlie" - Sound Version 1931

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Full title reads: "'Welcome Home Charlie' London takes World's greatest Comedian to her heart on return after long sojourn in America."

London.

A steam train comes into a railway station. A crowd gathers around the last carriage.

Cheers are hear as Charlie Chaplin comes out...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
6215
Sort Number:
31/016
Time in/Out:
01:22:00:00 / 01:22:59:00
Canister:
31/16
Film ID:
709.15
Issue Date:
22/02/1931

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