Wide Wide World AKA World Wide World Beware… 1946

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Title reads: "Wide Wide World".

Annual cotton picking contest in Arkansas, USA (United States of America). An official fires a pistol for the beginning of the contest. Various shots of some of the pickers at work. Various shots of the pickers trudging home with loaded sacks slung across shoulders....

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
45977
Sort Number:
46/083
Time in/Out:
01:09:36:00 / 01:11:27:00
Canister:
46/83
Film ID:
1412.11
Issue Date:
17/10/1946

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