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Tennis on skates
Title:
Tennis on skates
NFSA ID
127182
Year
1940
Courtesy
Cinesound Movietone Productions
Players wear roller skates in a mixed doubles tennis match played in Melbourne in this newsreel clip from 1940.
Please note this clip is silent. The NFSA holds the picture negative only for this newsreel rather than the final version, with voice-over narration, that would have screened in cinemas at the time.
Production company
Cinesound Movietone Productions
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