Youth Aids Old Age 1959

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Description

Titles read: "LAMBETH - YOUTH AIDS OLD AGE".

London.

Various shots of children playing on a bombsite playground off Lambeth Walk. Young boys build a fire, others play on a metal climbing frame, two boys sit with their dog in the sandpit, more play on a makeshift roundabout.

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50680
Sort Number:
59/040
Time in/Out:
01:49:48:00 / 01:51:12:00
Canister:
59/40
Film ID:
1581.19
Issue Date:
18/05/1959

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