Work Or Want Week Makes The Headlines AKA… 1947

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CU. Copies of the Daily Express coming off the press. CU. Newspapers rolling along a conveyor belt.

Full title reads: "Work Or Want Week Makes The Headlines".

Richmond, Surrey.

Harold Wilson, new 31 year old President of the Board of Trade, at home in Richmond.

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
41251
Sort Number:
47/080
Time in/Out:
01:46:22:00 / 01:47:56:00
Canister:
47/80
Film ID:
1191.27
Issue Date:
06/10/1947

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