What You Said About It - The Strike And… 1947

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Full title reads: "WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT IT - THE STRIKE - AND YOU".

London.

Opinion poll on the meat workers strike and bringing army to sort it out. Several shots of an army convoy moving along a road to a distribution centre. Medium shot of a butcher standing outside his shop at Smithfield...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
40481
Sort Number:
47/005
Time in/Out:
01:52:40:00 / 01:55:18:00
Canister:
47/5
Film ID:
1173.23
Issue Date:
16/01/1947

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