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Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an 8-minute tour from the Portobello Road … Continue reading "A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967" The post A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967 appeared first on Flashbak.
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