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The Great Hold-Up

The Great Hold-Up

1955 · 10 min · Documentary

A short campaign film demonstrating the creeping paralysis overcoming the nation's road transport, the urgent need for new and better roads, and a plan to show how we might obtain them.

Directed by Fred Gamage

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